My Mother's Kiss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKEK LMNM OPQP BRHR STUT UVKV| My mother's kiss my mother's kiss | A |
| I feel its impress now | B |
| As in the bright and happy days | C |
| She pressed it on my brow | B |
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| You say it is a fancied thing | D |
| Within my memory fraught | E |
| To me it has a sacred place | F |
| The treasure house of thought | E |
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| Again I feel her fingers glide | G |
| Amid my clustering hair | H |
| I see the love light in her eyes | I |
| When all my life was fair | H |
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| Again I hear her gentle voice | J |
| In warning or in love | K |
| How precious was the faith that taught | E |
| My soul of things above | K |
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| The music of her voice is stilled | L |
| Her lips are paled in death | M |
| As precious pearls I'll clasp her words | N |
| Until my latest breath | M |
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| The world has scattered round my path | O |
| Honor and wealth and fame | P |
| But naught so precious as the thoughts | Q |
| That gather round her name | P |
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| And friends have placed upon my brow | B |
| The laurels of renown | R |
| But she first taught me how to wear | H |
| My manhood as a crown | R |
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| My hair is silvered o'er with age | S |
| I'm longing to depart | T |
| To clasp again my mother's hand | U |
| And be a child at heart | T |
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| To roam with her the glory land | U |
| Where saints and angels greet | V |
| To cast our crowns with songs of love | K |
| At our Redeemer's feet | V |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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