Dependence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDCDCD EFEFEF CGCGCG| An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons having | A |
| joined the English army was taken care of last night at the Florence | B |
| Crittenden Mission Press Clipping | A |
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| The young men said to their mother | C |
| Hear us O dearest and best | D |
| Time cannot cool or smother | C |
| The love of you in our breast | D |
| Here is your place and no other | C |
| Come home and rest | D |
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| And the mother's heart was grateful | E |
| For the love of her cherished ones | F |
| And her labor bitter and hateful | E |
| She left at the word of her sons | F |
| Till she heard far off the fateful | E |
| Voices of guns | F |
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| Their love did more enslave her | C |
| They did not understand | G |
| That none could guard or save her | C |
| When war was on the land | G |
| But herself and God who gave her | C |
| Heart and mind and hand | G |
Alice Duer Miller
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