Mater Amabilis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGGDDG HIJKKJ LLMDDC GGNOON PPQRRQ SSGTTG CCUCCG| Down the goldenest of streams | A |
| Tide of dreams | A |
| The fair cradled man child drifts | B |
| Sways with cadenced motion slow | C |
| To and fro | C |
| As the mother foot poised lightly falls and lifts | B |
| - | |
| He the firstling he the light | D |
| Of her sight | D |
| He the breathing pledge of love | E |
| 'Neath the holy passion lies | F |
| Of her eyes | F |
| Smiles to feel the warm life giving ray above | E |
| - | |
| She believes that in his vision | G |
| Skies elysian | G |
| O'er an angel people shine | G |
| Back to gardens of delight | D |
| Taking flight | D |
| His auroral spirit basks in dreams divine | G |
| - | |
| But she smiles through anxious tears | H |
| Unborn years | I |
| Pressing forward she perceives | J |
| Shadowy muffled shapes they come | K |
| Deaf and dumb | K |
| Bringing what dry chaff and tares or full eared sheaves | J |
| - | |
| What for him shall she invoke | L |
| Shall the oak | L |
| Bind the man's triumphant brow | M |
| Shall his daring foot alight | D |
| On the height | D |
| Shall he dwell amidst the humble and the low | C |
| - | |
| Through what tears and sweat and pain | G |
| Must he gain | G |
| Fruitage from the tree of life | N |
| Shall it yield him bitter flavor | O |
| Shall its savor | O |
| Be as manna midst the turmoil and the strife | N |
| - | |
| In his cradle slept and smiled | P |
| Thus the child | P |
| Who as Prince of Peace was hailed | Q |
| Thus anigh the mother breast | R |
| Lulled to rest | R |
| Child Napoleon down the lilied river sailed | Q |
| - | |
| Crowned or crucified the same | S |
| Glows the flame | S |
| Of her deathless love divine | G |
| Still the blessed mother stands | T |
| In all lands | T |
| As she watched beside thy cradle and by mine | G |
| - | |
| Whatso gifts the years bestow | C |
| Still men know | C |
| While she breathes lives one who sees | U |
| Stand they pure or sin defiled | C |
| But the child | C |
| Whom she crooned to sleep and rocked upon her knee | G |
Emma Lazarus
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