Christina Rossetti wrote many beautiful poems. Here is a short one:
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
The rhyme scheme is a b c b d e f e. In the second and sixth verses, the pronouns I and you are reversed. In the seventh verse Christina Rossetti personifies trees. Who Has Seen the Wind? asks a rhetorical question. The poem is short and expressive.
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