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Mar. 14th, 2019

Does this exhibit a Northern-hemisphere bias?

With the winter and spring themes? Yes.

What about the feminine rhymes?

We get "portal" and "mortal" which is pretty neat--I usually only come across reference to "portals" in a speculative-fiction sense, so even if it's probably just referencing the stone in front of the tomb, it gives me a mental image of Jesus radiantly bursting out. The next verse follows that up with "portal/immortal," however (and it's "tomb's dark portal" both times!) and the novelty wears off a little

What about the feminine imagery?

Spring is apparently the "queen of seasons" (see above).

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