Jessie Mitchell-s Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGFHFIJKFLMKNK OPKQ| Into her mother s bedroom to wash the ballooning body | A |
| My mother is jelly hearted and she has a brain of jelly | A |
| Sweet quiver soft irrelevant Not essential | B |
| Only a habit would cry if she should die | C |
| A pleasant sort of fool without the least iron | D |
| Are you better mother do you think it will come today | E |
| The stretched yellow rag that was Jessie Mitchell s mother | F |
| Reviewed her Young and so thin and so straight | G |
| So straight as if nothing could ever bend her | F |
| But poor men would bend her and doing things with poor men | H |
| Being much in bed and babies would bend her over | F |
| And the rest of things in life that were for poor women | I |
| Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill | J |
| Comparisons shattered her heart ate at her bulwarks | K |
| The shabby and the bright she almost hating her daughter | F |
| Crept into an old sly refuge Jessie s black | L |
| And her way will be black and jerkier even than mine | M |
| Mine in fact because I was lovely had flowers | K |
| Tucked in the jerks flowers were here and there | N |
| She revived for the moment settled and dried up triumphs | K |
| Forced perfume into old petals pulled up the droop | O |
| Refueled | P |
| Triumphant long exhaled breaths | K |
| Her exquisite yellow youth | Q |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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