Mary Arden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEDAFFGHCFIFA FBJBAKLKA CDEDBMKMAAF| When a simple English maiden | A |
| Nested warm in Wilmicote | B |
| Sang forth like a lark uprising | C |
| Heavenward with its morning note | B |
| Did no English ear that listened | B |
| Even then foretouched by fame | D |
| Tremble to the prophet music | E |
| Fountain headed in thy name | D |
| Mary Arden | A |
| And to thee thyself O tell me | F |
| Shade of Shakespeare s mother tell me | F |
| Did no dazzling vision come | G |
| Banishing all thoughts of gloom | H |
| Of the bardic grandeurs waiting | C |
| On thy matron fate when He | F |
| Who in time should call thee mother | I |
| Should all time s subjector be | F |
| Mary Arden | A |
| - | |
| Then a mother we behold thee | F |
| With that babe upon thy breast | B |
| That great nascent soul so bird like | J |
| Babbling in its fragrant nest | B |
| O what spirit sweetly human | A |
| O what instincts mildly wise | K |
| Sucked he from those mother fountains | L |
| Drew he from those mother eyes | K |
| Mary Arden | A |
| - | |
| But shall we now spirit basking | C |
| In the noonblaze of his fame | D |
| Fail to read a sign prophetic | E |
| In thy lovely maiden name | D |
| No it is the star that trembled | B |
| O er a royal poet s birth | M |
| And amongst immortal Maries | K |
| Second to but one on earth | M |
| Mary Arden | A |
| Glory to thee Mary Arden | A |
| Shakespeare s mother England s Mary | F |
Charles Harpur
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