And worthy of a queenâs embrace. You might have spared his soul, sister, Have spared my soul, your own soul too: Though I had not been born at all, Heâd never have looked at you. My father may sleep in Paradise, My mother at Heaven-gate: But sister Maude shall get no sleep Either early or late.h who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who lurked to spy and peer. The repetition of the pronoun â who â invites the reader immediately into a world of blame as the repetition draws attention to the person âwhoâ has brought about the suffering in the poem.