The Sonnet-ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBDEFEFCA| Oh mother mother where is happiness | A |
| They took my lover's tallness off to war | B |
| Left me lamenting Now I cannot guess | C |
| What I can use an empty heart cup for | B |
| He won't be coming back here any more | B |
| Some day the war will end but oh I knew | D |
| When he went walking grandly out that door | B |
| That my sweet love would have to be untrue | D |
| Would have to be untrue Would have to court | E |
| Coquettish death whose impudent and strange | F |
| Possessive arms and beauty of a sort | E |
| Can make a hard man hesitate and change | F |
| And he will be the one to stammer Yes | C |
| Oh mother mother where is happiness | A |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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