The Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCA DEFE AGFG HI JKI AACA ILFI FBMNBThe 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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