Motherhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHIJHJH KLKHMHMGNGNOHOHPQPQ| I wonder if he'll stop to think | A |
| When the long years have traveled by | B |
| Who heard his plea 'I want a drink ' | C |
| Who was the first to hear him cry | B |
| I wonder if he will recall | D |
| The patience of her and the smile | E |
| The kisses after every fall | D |
| The love that lasted all the while | E |
| I wonder as I watch them there | F |
| If he'll remember when he's grown | G |
| How came the silver in her hair | F |
| And why her loveliness has flown | G |
| Yet thus my mother did for me | H |
| Night after night and day by day | I |
| For such a care I used to be | H |
| As such a boy I used to play | I |
| I know that I was always sure | J |
| Of tenderness at mother's knee | H |
| That every hurt of mine she'd cure | J |
| And every fault she'd fail to see | H |
| But who recalls the tears she shed | K |
| And all the wishes gratified | L |
| The eager journeys to his bed | K |
| I took for granted just as he | H |
| The boundless love that mother gives | M |
| But watching them I've come to see | H |
| Time teaches every man who lives | M |
| How much of him is not his own | G |
| And now I know the countless ways | N |
| By which her love for me was shown | G |
| And I recall forgotten days | N |
| Perhaps some day a little chap | O |
| As like him as he's now like me | H |
| Shall climb into his mother's lap | O |
| For comfort and for sympathy | H |
| And he shall know what now I know | P |
| And see through eyes a trifle dim | Q |
| The mother of the long ago | P |
| Who daily spent her strength for him | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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