Motherhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBC BCDEDE FBFFB CGCCG H IBIIBJ BK| Mary the Christ long slain passed silently | A |
| Following the children joyous astir | B |
| Under the cedrus and the olive tree | B |
| Pausing to let their laughter float to her | B |
| Each voice an echo of a voice more dear | B |
| She saw a little Christ in every face | C |
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| Then came another woman gliding near | B |
| To watch the tender life which filled the place | C |
| And Mary sought the woman's hand and spoke | D |
| ' I know thee not yet know thy memory tossed | E |
| With all a thousand dreams their eyes evoke | D |
| Who bring to thee a child beloved and lost | E |
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| ' I too have rocked my Little One | F |
| And He was fair | B |
| Oh fairer than the fairest sun | F |
| And like its rays through amber spun | F |
| His sun bright hair | B |
| Still I can see it shine and shine ' | - |
| Even so the woman said 'was mine ' | - |
| - | |
| ' His ways were ever darling ways' | C |
| And Mary smiled | G |
| So soft so clinging Glad relays | C |
| Of love were all His precious days | C |
| My Little Child | G |
| My vanished star My music fled ' | - |
| ' Even so was mine ' the woman said | H |
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| And Mary whispered Tell me thou | I |
| Of thine ' And she | B |
| ' Oh mine was rosy as a bough | I |
| Blooming with roses sent somehow | I |
| To bloom for me | B |
| His balmy fingers left a thrill | J |
| Deep in my breast that warms me still ' | - |
| - | |
| Then she gazed down some wilder darker hour | B |
| And said when Mary questioned not knowing | K |
| Who art thou mother of so sweet a flower ' | - |
| ' I am the mother of Iscariot ' | - |
Eleanor Agnes Lee
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