Stains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB ABEBFB ABGBHB IBJBKB| The three ghosts on the lonesome road | A |
| Spake each to one another | B |
| Whence came that stain about your mouth | C |
| No lifted hand may cover | B |
| From eating of forbidden fruit | D |
| Brother my brother | B |
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| The three ghosts on the sunless road | A |
| Spake each to one another | B |
| Whence came that red burn on your foot | E |
| No dust nor ash may cover | B |
| I stamped a neighbor's hearth flame out | F |
| Brother my brother | B |
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| The three ghosts on the windless road | A |
| Spake each to one another | B |
| Whence came that blood upon your hand | G |
| No other hand may cover | B |
| From breaking of a woman's heart | H |
| Brother my brother | B |
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| Yet on the earth clean men we walked | I |
| Glutton and Thief and Lover | B |
| White flesh and fair it hid our stains | J |
| That no man might discover | B |
| Naked the soul goes up to God | K |
| Brother my brother | B |
Theodosia Garrison
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