Mother Of Five Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE AFFG BBH AIIJJKKLL AMMNNOOAAShe mothered five | A |
Night after night she watched a little bed | B |
Night after night she cooled a fevered head | B |
Day after day she guarded little feet | C |
Taught little minds the dangers of the street | C |
Taught little lips to utter simple prayers | D |
Whispered of strength that some day would be theirs | D |
And trained them all to use it as they should | E |
She gave her babies to the nation's good | E |
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She mothered five | A |
She gave her beauty from her cheeks let fade | F |
The roses' blushes to her mother trade | F |
She saw the wrinkles furrowing her brow | G |
Yet smiling said 'My boy grows stronger now ' | - |
When pleasures called she turned away and said | B |
''I dare not leave my babies to be fed | B |
By strangers' hands besides they are so small | H |
I must be near to hear them when they call ' | - |
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She mothered five | A |
Night after night they sat about her knee | I |
And heard her tell of what some day would be | I |
From her they learned that in the world outside | J |
Are cruelty and vice and selfishness and pride | J |
From her they learned the wrongs they ought to shun | K |
What things to love what work must still be done | K |
She led them through the labyrinth of youth | L |
And brought five men and women up to Truth | L |
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She mothered five | A |
Her name may be unknown save to the few | M |
Of her the outside world but little knew | M |
But somewhere five are treading Virtue's ways | N |
Serving the world and brightening its days | N |
Somewhere are five who tempted stand upright | O |
Clinging to honor keeping her memory bright | O |
Somewhere this mother toils and is alive | A |
No more as one but in the breasts of five | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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