When I Am Dead And Sister To The Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDCD| When I am dead and sister to the dust | A |
| When no more avidly I drink the wine | B |
| Of human love when the pale Proserpine | B |
| Has covered me with poppies and cold rust | A |
| Has cut my lyre strings and the sun has thrust | A |
| Me underground to nourish the world vine | B |
| Men shall discover these old songs of mine | B |
| And say This woman lived as poets must | A |
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| This woman lived and wore life as a sword | C |
| To conquer wisdom this dead woman read | D |
| In the sealed Book of Love and underscored | C |
| The meanings Then the sails of faith she spread | D |
| And faring out for regions unexplored | C |
| Went singing down the River of the Dead | D |
Elsa Barker
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