To Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEBBFFGGHH IIJJKKBBLLKKMM| I would that you should know | A |
| Dear mother that I love you love you so | A |
| That I remember other days and years | B |
| Remember childish joys and childish fears | B |
| And this because my baby's little hand | C |
| Opened my own heart's door and made me understand | C |
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| I wonder how you could | D |
| Be always kind and good | D |
| So quick to hear to tend | E |
| My smallest ills to lend | E |
| Such sympathising ears | B |
| Swifter than ancient seer's | B |
| I never yet knew hands so soft and kind | F |
| Nor any cheek so smooth nor any mind | F |
| So full of tender thoughts Dear mother now | G |
| I think that I can guess a little how | G |
| You must have looked for some response some sign | H |
| That all my tiresome wayward heart was thine | H |
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| And sure it was You were my first dear love | I |
| You who first pointed me to God above | I |
| You who seemed hearkening to my lightest word | J |
| And in the dark night seasons always heard | J |
| When I came trembling knocking at your door | K |
| Forgive me mother if my whims outwore | K |
| Your patient heart Or if in later days | B |
| I sought out foolish unfamiliar ways | B |
| If ever mother dear I loosed my hold | L |
| Of your loved hand or headstrong thought you cold | L |
| Forgive me mother Oh forgive me dear | K |
| I am come back at last you see me here | K |
| Your loving child And mother on my knee | M |
| I pray that thus my child may think of me | M |
Fay Inchfawn
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