Chrysalises Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFG HBIBJKLBEM NONPQRESTR| The little girl though very ill | A |
| Went out one morning | B |
| To wander with faltering footsteps | C |
| The nearby hill | A |
| She brought back mountain flowers | D |
| In which she hid | E |
| A chrysalis and unknowing set it | F |
| Close beside her bed | G |
| - | |
| A few days later at the moment | H |
| She lay dying | B |
| We all gathered round our eyes | I |
| Red with crying | B |
| And at the instant she departed | J |
| The whisper of wings | K |
| Was heard and through the window | L |
| Taking flight escaping | B |
| Into the waiting garden wafted | E |
| A golden butterfly | M |
| - | |
| Hurriedly I searched for the insect s | N |
| Now empty prison | O |
| Then turned my gaze to the dead child s | N |
| Pallid brow | P |
| If the winged butterfly I thought leaves | Q |
| Its confining cell | R |
| To find light and space and the immensity | E |
| Of golden fields | S |
| What shall the newly freed soul find when | T |
| It bursts its shell | R |
Jose Asuncion Silva
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