To A Rebellious Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEDECF GGHHF IIJJKKLL MMNNOJJOPP QRRSSTTQBBUV CCPPAAYou call authority a grievous thing | A |
With careless hands you snap the leading string | A |
And for a frolic so it seems to you | B |
Put off the old love and put on the new | B |
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For What does Mother know of love you say | C |
Did her soul ever thrill | D |
Did little tendernesses ever creep | E |
Into her dreams and over ride her will | D |
Did her eyes shine or her heart ever leap | E |
As my heart leaps to day | C |
I who am young who long to try my wings | F |
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How should she understand | G |
She with her calm cool hand | G |
She never felt such yearnings And beside | H |
It's clear I can't be tied | H |
For ever to my mother's apron strings | F |
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There are Infinities of Knowledge dear | I |
And there are mysteries not yet made clear | I |
To you the Uninitiate Life's book | J |
Is open yes but you may only look | J |
At its first section Youth | K |
Is part not all the truth | K |
It is impossible that you should see | L |
The end from the beginning perfectly | L |
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You answer Even so | M |
But how can Mother know | M |
Who meditates upon the price of bacon | N |
On 'liberties' the charwoman has taken | N |
And on the laundry's last atrocities | O |
She knows her cookery book | J |
And how a joint of English meat should look | J |
But all such things as these | O |
Make up her life She dwells in tents but I | P |
In a vast temple open to the sky | P |
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Yet time was when that Mother stooped to learn | Q |
The language written in your infant face | R |
For years she walked your pace | R |
And none but she interpreted your chatter | S |
Who else felt interest in such pitter patter | S |
Or weary joined in all your games with zest | T |
And managed with a minimum of rest | T |
Now is it not your turn | Q |
To bridge the gulf to span the gap between you | B |
To day before Death's angel over lean you | B |
Before your chance is gone | U |
This is worth thinking on | V |
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Are mothers blameless then Nay dearie nay | C |
Nor even tactful always Yet there may | C |
Come some grey dawning in the by and by | P |
When no more brave nor sure nor strong you'll cry | P |
Aloud to God for that despised thing | A |
The old dear comfort Mother's apron string | A |
Fay Inchfawn
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