Prayer For A New Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| The things she knew let her forget again | A |
| The voices in the sky the fear the cold | B |
| The gaping shepherds and the queer old men | A |
| Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold | B |
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| Let her have laughter with her little one | C |
| Teach her the endless tuneless songs to sing | D |
| Grant her her right to whisper to her son | C |
| The foolish names one dare not call a king | D |
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| Keep from her dreams the rumble of a crowd | E |
| The smell of rough cut wood the trail of red | F |
| The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud | E |
| That wraps the strange new body of the dead | F |
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| Ah let her go kind Lord where mothers go | G |
| And boast his pretty words and ways and plan | H |
| The proud and happy years that they shall know | G |
| Together when her son is grown a man | H |
Dorothy Parker
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