Mother. - Alpha And Omega Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE AFFGHDDEE AIIJKDDEE| Mother Mother | A |
| The startled cry of childish fright | B |
| Rang through the silence of the night | B |
| As but the mother's fond caress | C |
| Could soothe its infantile distress | C |
| And the mother answered with loving stroke | D |
| Of her gentle hand as she softly spoke | D |
| Hush hush my child that troubled cry | E |
| What evil can harm thee with mother nigh | E |
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| Mother Mother | A |
| Long years have passed and the fevered brow | F |
| Of a bearded man she is stroking now | F |
| As through delirium and pain | G |
| He cries as a little child again | H |
| And the mother answered with loving stroke | D |
| Of her careworn hand as she softly spoke | D |
| Hush hush my child that troubled cry | E |
| What evil can harm thee with mother nigh | E |
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| Mother Mother | A |
| Still time rolls on and an old man stands | I |
| Trembling on life's declining sands | I |
| As memory bridges the flood of years | J |
| He cries as a child with childish tears | K |
| And memory answers with loving stroke | D |
| Of a vanished hand and an echo spoke | D |
| Hush hush my child that troubled cry | E |
| What evil can harm thee with mother nigh | E |
Alfred Castner King
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