A Sybil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCD EFG HIG| Long before our time they called her old | A |
| But she'd walk down the same road every day | B |
| Her age became too much to say | B |
| In years and like a forest's would be told | A |
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| In centuries She comes to stand at dusk | C |
| Her spot each time the same and to foretell | D |
| She is a hollow wrinkled husk | C |
| Dark as a fire gutted citadel | D |
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| She has to turn her flock of talking loose | E |
| Or it will grow too crowded to relieve | F |
| Flapping and screaming words are flying all | G |
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| Around her Then returning home to roost | H |
| They find a perch beneath her eyebrows' eaves | I |
| And in that shadow wait for night to fall | G |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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