The Mother's Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF DGDGAAE HIHIJJEE BKBKIIE| When I was a boy and it chanced to rain | A |
| Mother would always watch for me | B |
| She used to stand by the window pane | A |
| Worried and troubled as she could be | B |
| And this was the question I used to hear | C |
| The very minute that I drew near | D |
| The words she used I can't forget | E |
| 'Tell me my boy if your feet are wet ' | F |
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| Worried about me was mother dear | D |
| As healthy a lad as ever strolled | G |
| Over a turnpike far or near | D |
| 'Fraid to death that I'd take a cold | G |
| Always stood by the window pane | A |
| Watching for me in the pouring rain | A |
| And her words in my ears are ringing yet | E |
| 'Tell me my boy if your feet are wet ' | - |
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| Stockings warmed by the kitchen fire | H |
| And slippers ready for me to wear | I |
| Seemed that mother would never tire | H |
| Giving her boy the best of care | I |
| Thinking of him the long day through | J |
| In the worried way that all mothers do | J |
| Whenever it rained she'd start to fret | E |
| Always fearing my feet were wet | E |
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| And now whenever it rains I see | B |
| A vision of mother in days of yore | K |
| Still waiting there to welcome me | B |
| As she used to do by the open door | K |
| And always I think as I enter there | I |
| Of a mother's love and a mother's care | I |
| Her words in my ears are ringing yet | E |
| 'Tell me my boy if your feet are wet ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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