The Harder Part Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEAFGGHH| It's mighty hard for Mother I am busy through the day | A |
| And the tasks of every morning keep the gloomy thoughts away | A |
| And I'm not forever meeting with a slipper or a gown | B |
| To remind me of our sorrow when I'm toiling in the town | B |
| But with Mother it is different there's no minute she is free | C |
| From the sight of things which tell her of the joy which used to be | C |
| She is brave and she is faithful and we say we're reconciled | D |
| But your hearts are always heavy once you've lost a little child | D |
| And a man can face his sorrow in a manly sort of way | A |
| For his grief must quickly leave him when he's busy through the day | A |
| But the mother's lot is harder she must learn to sing and smile | E |
| Though she's living in the presence of her sorrow all the while | E |
| Through the room where love once waited she must tip toe day by day | A |
| She must see through every window where the baby used to play Pg | F |
| And there's not a thing she touches nor a task she finds to do | G |
| But it sets her heart to aching and begins the hurt anew | G |
| Oh a man can turn from sorrow for his mind is occupied | H |
| But the mother's lot is harder grief is always at her side | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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