The Mother-s Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDA EFGFHHA IJIJKKL MCMCNNL LJLJOOL POPOLLL QJQJRRL STUTVVT OJOJWWT XJXJYY| I | A |
| - | |
| WHEN first thou camest gentle shy and fond | B |
| My eldest born first hope and dearest treasure | C |
| My heart received thee with a joy beyond | B |
| All that it yet had felt of earthly pleasure | C |
| Nor thought that any love again might be | D |
| So deep and strong as that I felt for thee | D |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Faithful and true with sense beyond thy years | E |
| And natural piety that lean'd to Heaven | F |
| Wrung by a harsh word suddenly to tears | G |
| Yet patient of rebuke when justly given | F |
| Obedient easy to be reconciled | H |
| And meekly cheerful such wert thou my child | H |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Not willing to be left still by my side | I |
| Haunting my walks while summer day was dying | J |
| Nor leaving in thy turn but pleased to glide | I |
| Thro' the dark room where I was sadly lying | J |
| Or by the couch of pain a sitter meek | K |
| Watch the dim eye and kiss the feverish cheek | K |
| IV | L |
| - | |
| O boy of such as thou are oftenest made | M |
| Earth's fragile idols like a tender flower | C |
| No strength in all thy freshness prone to fade | M |
| And bending weakly to the thunder shower | C |
| Still round the loved thy heart found force to bind | N |
| And clung like woodbine shaken in the wind | N |
| V | L |
| - | |
| Then THOU my merry love bold in thy glee | L |
| Under the bough or by the firelight dancing | J |
| With thy sweet temper and thy spirit free | L |
| Didst come as restless as a bird's wing glancing | J |
| Full of a wild and irrepressible mirth | O |
| Like a young sunbeam to the gladden'd earth | O |
| VI | L |
| - | |
| Thine was the shout the song the burst of joy | P |
| Which sweet from childhood's rosy lip resoundeth | O |
| Thine was the eager spirit nought could cloy | P |
| And the glad heart from which all grief reboundeth | O |
| And many a mirthful jest and mock reply | L |
| Lurk'd in the laughter of thy dark blue eye | L |
| VII | L |
| - | |
| And thine was many an art to win and bless | Q |
| The cold and stern to joy and fondness warming | J |
| The coaxing smile the frequent soft caress | Q |
| The earnest tearful prayer all wrath disarming | J |
| Again my heart a new affection found | R |
| But thought that lore with thee had reach'd its bound | R |
| VIII | L |
| - | |
| At length THOU camest thou the last and least | S |
| Nick named 'The Emperor' by thy laughing brothers | T |
| Because a haughty spirit swell'd thy breast | U |
| And thou didst seek to rule and sway the others | T |
| Mingling with every playful infant wile | V |
| A mimic majesty that made us smile | V |
| IX | T |
| - | |
| And oh most like a regal child wert thou | O |
| An eye of resolute and successful scheming | J |
| Fair shoulders curling lip and dauntless brow | O |
| Fit for the world's strife not for Poet's dreaming | J |
| And proud the lifting of thy stately head | W |
| And the firm bearing of thy conscious tread | W |
| X | T |
| - | |
| Different from both Yet each succeeding claim | X |
| I that all other love had been forswearing | J |
| Forthwith admitted equal and the same | X |
| Nor injured either by this love's comparing | J |
| Nor stole a fraction for the newer call | Y |
| But in the Mother's heart found room for ALL | Y |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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