The Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGHIHIJKKLMMNOOPPQQP RR STS| Abortions will not let you forget | A |
| You remember the children you got that you did not get | A |
| The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair | B |
| The singers and workers that never handled the air | B |
| You will never neglect or beat | C |
| Them or silence or buy with a sweet | C |
| You will never wind up the sucking thumb | D |
| Or scuttle off ghosts that come | D |
| You will never leave them controlling your luscious sigh | E |
| Return for a snack of them with gobbling mother eye | E |
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| I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed | F |
| children | G |
| I have contracted I have eased | H |
| My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck | I |
| I have said Sweets if I sinned if I seized | H |
| Your luck | I |
| And your lives from your unfinished reach | J |
| If I stole your births and your names | K |
| Your straight baby tears and your games | K |
| Your stilted or lovely loves your tumults your marriages aches | L |
| and your deaths | M |
| If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths | M |
| Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate | N |
| Though why should I whine | O |
| Whine that the crime was other than mine | O |
| Since anyhow you are dead | P |
| Or rather or instead | P |
| You were never made | Q |
| But that too I am afraid | Q |
| Is faulty oh what shall I say how is the truth to be said | P |
| You were born you had body you died | R |
| It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried | R |
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| Believe me I loved you all | S |
| Believe me I knew you though faintly and I loved I loved you | T |
| All | S |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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