To My Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JCJK LMLM NONO DPDP QRQR ACAK ABAB STST| O sister God is very good | A |
| Thou art a woman now | B |
| O sister be thy womanhood | A |
| A baptism on thy brow | B |
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| For what Do ancient stories lie | C |
| Of Titans long ago | D |
| The children of the lofty sky | C |
| And mother earth below | D |
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| Nay walk not now upon the ground | E |
| Some sons of heavenly mould | F |
| Some daughters of the Holy found | E |
| In earthly garments' fold | F |
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| He said who did and spoke the truth | G |
| Gods are the sons of God | H |
| And so the world's Titanic youth | G |
| Strives homeward by one road | I |
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| Then live thou sister day and night | J |
| An earth child of the sky | C |
| For ever climbing up the height | J |
| Of thy divinity | K |
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| Still in thy mother's heart embrace | L |
| Waiting thy hour of birth | M |
| Thou growest by the genial grace | L |
| Of the child bearing earth | M |
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| Through griefs and joys each sad and sweet | N |
| Thou shalt attain the end | O |
| Till then a goddess incomplete | N |
| O evermore my friend | O |
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| Nor is it pride that striveth so | D |
| The height of the Divine | P |
| Is to be lowly 'mid the low | D |
| No towering cloud a mine | P |
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| A mine of wealth and warmth and song | Q |
| An ever open door | R |
| For when divinely born ere long | Q |
| A woman thou the more | R |
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| For at the heart of womanhood | A |
| The child's great heart doth lie | C |
| At childhood's heart the germ of good | A |
| Lies God's simplicity | K |
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| So sister be thy womanhood | A |
| A baptism on thy brow | B |
| For something dimly understood | A |
| And which thou art not now | B |
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| But which within thee all the time | S |
| Maketh thee what thou art | T |
| Maketh thee long and strive and climb | S |
| The God life at thy heart | T |
George Macdonald
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