Motherhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHIJHJH KLKHMHMGNGNOHOHPQPQI 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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