Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLFMNOPQRS TUVWXYZA2B2C2D2SAE2N AF2G2H2NNNI2| The angel of self discipline her guardian | A |
| Since she first knew and had to go away | B |
| From home that spring to have her child with strangers | C |
| Sustained her till the vanished boy next door | D |
| And her ordeal seemed fiction and the true | E |
| Her mother's firm insistence she was the mother | F |
| And the neighbors' acquiescence So she taught school | G |
| Walking a mile each way to ride the street car | H |
| First books of the Aeneid known by heart | I |
| French and the French Club Wednesday afternoon | J |
| Then summer replacement typist in an office | K |
| Her sister's family moving in with them | L |
| Depression years and she the only earner | F |
| Saturday football game and opera broadcasts | M |
| Sunday staying at home to wash her hair | N |
| The Business Women's Circle Monday night | O |
| And for a treat birthdays and holidays | P |
| Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald | Q |
| The young blond sister long since gone to college | R |
| Nephew and nieces gone her mother dead | S |
| Instead of Caesar having to teach First Aid | T |
| The students rowdy she retired The rent | U |
| For the empty rooms she gave to Thornwell Orphanage | V |
| Unwed Mothers Temperance and Foster Parents | W |
| And never bought the car she meant to buy | X |
| Too blind at last to do much more than sit | Y |
| All day in the antique glider on the porch | Z |
| Listening to cars pass up and down the street | A2 |
| Each summer on the grass behind the house | B2 |
| Cape jasmine with its scent of August nights | C2 |
| Humid and warm the soft magnolia bloom | D2 |
| Marked lightly by a slow brown stain she spread | S |
| For airing the same small intense collection | A |
| Concert programs worn trophies years of yearbooks | E2 |
| Letters from schoolgirl chums bracelets of hair | N |
| And the same picture black hair in a bun | A |
| Puzzled eyes in an oval face as young | F2 |
| Or old as innocence skirt to the ground | G2 |
| And seated on the high school steps the class | H2 |
| The ones to whom she would have said quot Seigneur | N |
| Donnez nous la force de supporter | N |
| La peine quot as an example easy to remember | N |
| Formal imperative object first person plural | I2 |
Edgar Bowers
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