Motherhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCDDCCEEFF GGHHCCIICCAAJJKK LLCCMMNNGGOOPKPKShe laid it where the sunbeams fall | A |
Unscann'd upon the broken wall | A |
Without a tear without a groan | B |
She laid it near a mighty stone | B |
Which some rude swain had haply cast | C |
Thither in sport long ages past | C |
And Time with mosses had o'erlaid | C |
And fenced with many a tall grassblade | C |
And all about bid roses bloom | D |
And violets shed their soft perfume | D |
There in its cool and quiet bed | C |
She set her burden down and fled | C |
Nor flung all eager to escape | E |
One glance upon the perfect shape | E |
That lay still warm and fresh and fair | F |
But motionless and soundless there | F |
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No human eye had mark'd her pass | G |
Across the linden shadow'd grass | G |
Ere yet the minster clock chimed seven | H |
Only the innocent birds of heaven | H |
The magpie and the rook whose nest | C |
Swings as the elmtree waves his crest | C |
And the lithe cricket and the hoar | I |
And huge limb'd hound that guards the door | I |
Look'd on when as a summer wind | C |
That passing leaves no trace behind | C |
All unapparell'd barefoot all | A |
She ran to that old ruin'd wall | A |
To leave upon the chill dank earth | J |
For ah she never knew its worth | J |
'Mid hemlock rank and fern and ling | K |
And dews of night that precious thing | K |
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And there it might have lain forlorn | L |
From morn till eve from eve to morn | L |
But that by some wild impulse led | C |
The mother ere she turn'd and fled | C |
One moment stood erect and high | M |
Then pour'd into the silent sky | M |
A cry so jubilant so strange | N |
That Alice as she strove to range | N |
Her rebel ringlets at her glass | G |
Sprang up and gazed across the grass | G |
Shook back those curls so fair to see | O |
Clapp'd her soft hands in childish glee | O |
And shriek'd her sweet face all aglow | P |
Her very limbs with rapture shaking | K |
My hen has laid an egg I know | P |
And only hear the noise she's making | K |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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