To A Rebellious Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEDECF GGHHF IIJJKKLL MMNNOJJOPP QRRSSTTQBBUV CCPPAA

You call authority a grievous thingA
With careless hands you snap the leading stringA
And for a frolic so it seems to youB
Put off the old love and put on the newB
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For What does Mother know of love you sayC
Did her soul ever thrillD
Did little tendernesses ever creepE
Into her dreams and over ride her willD
Did her eyes shine or her heart ever leapE
As my heart leaps to dayC
I who am young who long to try my wingsF
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How should she understandG
She with her calm cool handG
She never felt such yearnings And besideH
It's clear I can't be tiedH
For ever to my mother's apron stringsF
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There are Infinities of Knowledge dearI
And there are mysteries not yet made clearI
To you the Uninitiate Life's bookJ
Is open yes but you may only lookJ
At its first section YouthK
Is part not all the truthK
It is impossible that you should seeL
The end from the beginning perfectlyL
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You answer Even soM
But how can Mother knowM
Who meditates upon the price of baconN
On 'liberties' the charwoman has takenN
And on the laundry's last atrocitiesO
She knows her cookery bookJ
And how a joint of English meat should lookJ
But all such things as theseO
Make up her life She dwells in tents but IP
In a vast temple open to the skyP
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Yet time was when that Mother stooped to learnQ
The language written in your infant faceR
For years she walked your paceR
And none but she interpreted your chatterS
Who else felt interest in such pitter patterS
Or weary joined in all your games with zestT
And managed with a minimum of restT
Now is it not your turnQ
To bridge the gulf to span the gap between youB
To day before Death's angel over lean youB
Before your chance is goneU
This is worth thinking onV
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Are mothers blameless then Nay dearie nayC
Nor even tactful always Yet there mayC
Come some grey dawning in the by and byP
When no more brave nor sure nor strong you'll cryP
Aloud to God for that despised thingA
The old dear comfort Mother's apron stringA

Fay Inchfawn



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