To My Sister, On Her Twenty-first Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB CDCE FAFG HIHI A JKJK LMNM BOBO A EPEP QRQR| I | A |
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| Old fables are not all a lie | A |
| That tell of wondrous birth | B |
| Of Titan children father Sky | A |
| And mighty mother Earth | B |
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| Yea now are walking on the ground | C |
| Sons of the mingled brood | D |
| Yea now upon the earth are found | C |
| Such daughters of the Good | E |
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| Earth born my sister thou art still | F |
| A daughter of the sky | A |
| Oh climb for ever up the hill | F |
| Of thy divinity | G |
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| To thee thy mother Earth is sweet | H |
| Her face to thee is fair | I |
| But thou a goddess incomplete | H |
| Must climb the starry stair | I |
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| II | A |
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| Wouldst thou the holy hill ascend | J |
| Wouldst see the Father's face | K |
| To all his other children bend | J |
| And take the lowest place | K |
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| Be like a cottage on a moor | L |
| A covert from the wind | M |
| With burning fire and open door | N |
| And welcome free and kind | M |
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| Thus humbly doing on the earth | B |
| The things the earthly scorn | O |
| Thou shalt declare the lofty birth | B |
| Of all the lowly born | O |
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| III | A |
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| Be then thy sacred womanhood | E |
| A sign upon thee set | P |
| A second baptism understood | E |
| For what thou must be yet | P |
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| For cause and end of all thy strife | Q |
| And unrest as thou art | R |
| Still stings thee to a higher life | Q |
| The Father at thy heart | R |
George Macdonald
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