The Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCA DEFE AGFG HI JKI AACA ILFI FBMNB| The mother by the gallows tree | A |
| The gallows tree the gallows tree | A |
| While the twitching body mocked the sun | B |
| Lifted to Heaven her broken heart | C |
| And called for sympathy | A |
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| Then Mother Mary bent to her | D |
| Bent from her place by God's left side | E |
| And whispered Peace do I not know | F |
| My son was crucified | E |
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| O Mother Mary answered she | A |
| You cannot cannot enter in | G |
| To my soul's woe you cannot know | F |
| For your son wrought no sin | G |
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| And men whose work compelled them there | H |
| Their hearts were stricken dead | I |
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| They heard the rope creak on the beam | J |
| I thought I heard the frightened ghost | K |
| Whimpering overhead | I |
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| The mother by the gallows tree | A |
| The gallows tree the gallows tree | A |
| Lifted to Christ her broken heart | C |
| And called in agony | A |
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| Then Lord Christ bent to her and said | I |
| Be comforted be comforted | L |
| I know your grief the whole world's woe | F |
| I bore upon my head | I |
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| But O Lord Christ you cannot know | F |
| No one can know she said no one | B |
| While the quivering corpse swayed in the wind | M |
| Lord Christ no one can understand | N |
| Who never had a son | B |
Don Marquis
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