She Mothered Five Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE AFFG BBH AIIJJKKLL AMMNNOOAA| She 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 |
| Their rose blush beauty 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 too 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 |
| Who cling to honor keep 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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