Saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBEBFBGB HIIJ KLK| In our family there were two saints | A |
| my aunt and my grandmother | B |
| But their lives were different | C |
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| My grandmother's was tranquil even at the end | D |
| She was like a person walking in calm water | B |
| for some reason | E |
| the sea couldn't bring itself to hurt her | B |
| When my aunt took the same path | F |
| the waves broke over her they attacked her | B |
| which is how the Fates respond | G |
| to a true spiritual nature | B |
| - | |
| My grandmother was cautious conservative | H |
| that's why she escaped suffering | I |
| My aunt's escaped nothing | I |
| each time the sea retreats someone she loves is taken away | J |
| - | |
| Still she won't experience | K |
| the sea as evil To her it is what it is | L |
| where it touches land it must turn to violence | K |
Louise Gluck
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