Mothers' Splendid Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGEE| Mothers dream such splendid dreams when their little babies smile | A |
| Dreams of wondrous deeds they'll do in the happy after while | A |
| Every mother of a boy knows that in her arms is curled | B |
| One who some day will arise splendidly to serve the world | B |
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| Mothers sing their babes to sleep weaving through their lullabies | C |
| Visions of true hearted men when their sons to man hood rise | C |
| Greatness slumbers in the cot that each mother guards with care | D |
| And the world she knows will be better for her baby fair | D |
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| Mothers dream such splendid dreams of the men that are to be | E |
| In the years that are to come glorious are the things they see | E |
| None so poor and none so frail but looks yonder down life's lane | F |
| And sees there the splendid heights that her baby will attain | F |
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| Mothers dream such splendid dreams that no matter what we do | G |
| We can never hope to make half their visionings come true | G |
| Always as they look ahead down the lane of life they see | E |
| Greater men than yet have been in the men that are to be | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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