“For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather;
While there is much to say about the entirety of this poem, I feel as though the end of this poem really strikes the reader for many reasons. The ending of this poem seems extremely unnecessary, as almost to draw away from or even dismiss the rest of the sexualized text, but this could also be read in a different way. One may decide to see this as Rossetti's way of showing that the only people women truly could trust and rely on is the women in their life. This entire poem shows the temptation and the shame that lies with being a woman during this time, and the ending of this poem on the surface seems to dismiss the hardships that women face in trying to be able to interact in the real world, but it also draws attention to what women did have and that seems to be in this sense that they have each other to lean and rely on.