My Mother's Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DDEED FGDDG HIJJI IKLLK JKMMK JJJJJMy head is aching and I wish | A |
That I could feel tonight | B |
One well remembered tender touch | C |
That used to comfort me so much | C |
And put distress to flight | B |
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There's not a soothing anodyne | D |
Or sedative I know | D |
Such potency can ever hold | E |
As that which lovingly controlled | E |
My spirit long ago | D |
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How oft my burning cheek as if | F |
By Zephyrus was fanned | G |
And nothing interdicted pain | D |
Or seemed to make me well again | D |
So quick as mother's hand | G |
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'Tis years and years since it was laid | H |
In her own gentle way | I |
On tangled curls of brown and jet | J |
Above the downy coverlet | J |
'Neath which the children lay | I |
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As bright as blessed sunlight ray | I |
The past comes back to me | K |
Her fingers turn the sacred page | L |
For a little group of tender age | L |
Who gather at her knee | K |
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And when those hands together clasped | J |
Devout and still were we | K |
To whom it seemed God then and there | M |
Must surely answer such a prayer | M |
For none could pray as she | K |
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O buried love with her that passed | J |
Into the Silent Land | J |
O haunting vision of the night | J |
I see encoffined still and white | J |
A mother's face and hand | J |
Hattie Howard
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