The Slave Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPO QCRC STUT VCWC XYMY ZBCB| Heard you that shriek It rose | A |
| So wildly on the air | B |
| It seemed as if a burden'd heart | C |
| Was breaking in despair | B |
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| Saw you those hands so sadly clasped | D |
| The bowed and feeble hand | E |
| The shuddering of that fragile form | F |
| That look of grief and dread | G |
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| Saw you the sad imploring eye | H |
| Its every glance was pain | I |
| As if a storm of agony | J |
| Were sweeping through the brain | I |
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| She is a mother pale with fear | K |
| Her boy clings to her side | L |
| And in her kirtle vainly tries | M |
| His trembling form to hide | L |
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| He is not hers although she bore | N |
| For him a mother's pains | O |
| He is not hers although her blood | P |
| Is coursing through his veins | O |
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| He is not hers for cruel hands | Q |
| May rudely tear apart | C |
| The only wreath of household love | R |
| That binds her breaking heart | C |
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| His love has been a joyous light | S |
| That o'er her pathway smiled | T |
| A fountain gushing ever new | U |
| Amid life's desert wild | T |
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| His lightest word has been a tone | V |
| Of music round her heart | C |
| Their lives a streamlet blent in one | W |
| Oh Father must they part | C |
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| They tear him from her circling arms | X |
| Her last and fond embrace | Y |
| Oh never more may her sad eyes | M |
| Gaze on his mournful face | Y |
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| No marvel then these bitter shrieks | Z |
| Disturb the listening air | B |
| She is a mother and her heart | C |
| Is breaking in despair | B |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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