To My Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCD EEDFGFG HHIJJKKI BLAAEEMMNOO IIPPN QQAARRSSTU VV WWXLLLYYZZA2A2| IF e'er for human bliss or woe | A |
| I feel the sympathetic glow | A |
| If e'er my heart has learn'd to know | A |
| The gen'rous wish or pray'r | B |
| Who sow'd the germ with tender hand | C |
| Who mark'd its infant leaves expand | C |
| My mother's fost'ring care | D |
| - | |
| And if one flow'r of charms refin'd | E |
| May grace the garden of my mind | E |
| 'Twas she who nurs'd it there | D |
| She lov'd to cherish and adorn | F |
| Each blossom of the soil | G |
| To banish ev'ry weed and thorn | F |
| That oft oppos'd her toil | G |
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| And oh if e'er I've sigh'd to claim | H |
| The palm the living palm of fame | H |
| The glowing wreath of praise | I |
| If e'er I've wish'd the glitt'ring stores | J |
| That fortune on her fav'rite pours | J |
| 'Twas but that wealth and fame if mine | K |
| Round thee with streaming rays might shine | K |
| And gild thy sun bright days | I |
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| Yet not that splendor pomp and pow'r | B |
| Might then irradiate ev'ry hour | L |
| For these my mother well I know | A |
| On thee no raptures could bestow | A |
| But could thy bounty warm and kind | E |
| Be like thy wishes unconfin'd | E |
| And fall as manna from the skies | M |
| And bid a train of blessings rise | M |
| Diffusing joy and peace | N |
| The tear drop grateful pure and bright | O |
| For thee would beam with softer light | O |
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| Than all the diamond's crystal rays | I |
| Than all the emerald's lucid blaze | I |
| And joys of heav'n would thrill thy heart | P |
| To bid one bosom grief depart | P |
| One tear one sorrow cease | N |
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| Then oh may heav'n that loves to bless | Q |
| Bestow the pow'r to cheer distress | Q |
| Make thee its minister below | A |
| To light the cloudy path of woe | A |
| To visit the deserted cell | R |
| Where indigence is doom'd to dwell | R |
| To raise when drooping to the earth | S |
| The blossoms of neglected worth | S |
| And round with lib'ral hand dispense | T |
| The sunshine of beneficence | U |
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| But ah if fate should still deny | V |
| Delights like these too rich and high | V |
| - | |
| If grief and pain thy steps assail | W |
| In life's remote and wintry vale | W |
| Then as the wild Eolian lyre | X |
| Complains with soft entrancing number | L |
| When the loud storm awakes the wire | L |
| And bids enchantment cease to slumber | L |
| So filial love with soothing voice | Y |
| E'en then shall teach thee to rejoice | Y |
| E'en then shall sweeter milder sound | Z |
| When sorrow's tempest raves around | Z |
| While dark misfortune's gales destroy | A2 |
| The frail mimosa buds of hope and joy | A2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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