My Mother's Bible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIJIJ KLKMNONP QRQRSTUT| This book is all that's left me now | A |
| Tears will unbidden start | B |
| With faltering lip and throbbing brow | A |
| I press it to my heart | B |
| For many generations past | C |
| Here is our family tree | D |
| My mother's hands this Bible clasped | E |
| She dying gave it me | D |
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| Ah well do I remember those | F |
| Whose names these records bear | G |
| Who round the hearth stone used to close | H |
| After the evening prayer | G |
| And speak of what these pages said | I |
| In tones my heart would thrill | J |
| Though they are with the silent dead | I |
| Here are they living still | J |
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| My father read this holy book | K |
| To brothers sisters dear | L |
| How calm was my poor mother's look | K |
| Who leaned God's word to hear | M |
| Her angel face I see it yet | N |
| What vivid memories come | O |
| Again that little group is met | N |
| Within the halls of home | P |
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| Thou truest friend man ever knew | Q |
| Thy constancy I've tried | R |
| Where all were false I found thee true | Q |
| My counselor and guide | R |
| The mines of earth no treasures give | S |
| That could this volume buy | T |
| In teaching me the way to live | U |
| It taught me how to die | T |
George Pope Morris
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