The Christmas Gift For Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB FFBGGB HIBJKB FFBAAB| In the Christmas times of the long ago | A |
| There was one event we used to know | A |
| That was better than any other | B |
| It wasn't the toys that we hoped to get | C |
| But the talks we had and I hear them yet | C |
| Of the gift we'd buy for Mother | B |
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| If ever love fashioned a Christmas gift | D |
| Or saved its money and practiced thrift | D |
| 'Twas done in those days my brother | B |
| Those golden times of Long Gone By | E |
| Of our happiest years when you and I | E |
| Talked over the gift for Mother | B |
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| We hadn't gone forth on our different ways | F |
| Nor coined our lives into yesterdays | F |
| In the fires that smelt and smother | B |
| And we whispered and planned in our youthful glee | G |
| Of that marvelous something which was to be | G |
| The gift of our hearts to Mother | B |
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| It had to be all that our purse could give | H |
| Something she'd treasure while she could live | I |
| And better than any other | B |
| We gave it the best of our love and thought | J |
| And Oh the joy when at last we'd bought | K |
| That marvelous gift for Mother | B |
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| Now I think as we go on our different ways | F |
| Of the joy of those vanished yesterdays | F |
| How good it would be my brother | B |
| If this Christmas time we could only know | A |
| That same sweet thrill of the Long Ago | A |
| When we shared in the gift for Mother | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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