Completion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA GHGHAIAI JKJKJLJL AMAMAGAG NONOCPCP| When I shall meet God s generous dispensers | A |
| Of all the riches in the heavenly store | B |
| Those lesser gods who act as Recompensers | A |
| For loneliness and loss upon this shore | B |
| Methinks abashed and somewhat hesitating | C |
| My soul its wish and longing will declare | D |
| Lest they reply Here are no bounties waiting | C |
| We gave on earth your portion and your share | D |
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| Then shall I answer Yea I do remember | E |
| The many blessings to my life allowed | F |
| My June was always longer than December | E |
| My sun was always stronger than my cloud | F |
| My joy was ever deeper than my sorrow | G |
| My gain was ever greater than my loss | A |
| My yesterday seemed less than my to morrow | G |
| The crown looked always larger than the cross | A |
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| I have known love in all its radiant splendour | G |
| It shone upon my pathway to the end | H |
| I trod no road that did not bloom with tender | G |
| And fragrant blossoms planted by some friend | H |
| And those material things we call successes | A |
| In modest measure crowned my earthly lot | I |
| Yet there was one sweet happiness that blesses | A |
| The life of woman which to me came not | I |
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| I knew the hope of motherhood a season | J |
| I felt a fluttering heart beat neath my own | K |
| A little cry then silence For that reason | J |
| I dare to you my only wish make known | K |
| The babe who grew to angelhood in heaven | J |
| I never watched unfold from child to man | L |
| And so I ask that unto me be given | J |
| That motherhood which was God s eternal plan | L |
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| All womanhood He meant to share its glories | A |
| He meant us all to nurse our babes to rest | M |
| To croon them songs to tell them sleepy stories | A |
| Else why the wonder of a woman s breast | M |
| He must provide for all earth s cheated mothers | A |
| In His vast heavens of shining sphere on sphere | G |
| And with my son there must be many others | A |
| My spirit children who will claim me here | G |
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| Fair creatures by my loving thoughts created | N |
| Too finely fashioned for a mortal birth | O |
| Between the borders of two wounds they waited | N |
| Until they saw my spirit leave the earth | O |
| In God s great nursery they must be waiting | C |
| To welcome me with many an infant wile | P |
| Now let me go and satisfy this longing | C |
| To mother children for a little while | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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