A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA FAGA AHAH IJIJ KLKL MAMA NOPO| Is she not lovely Oh when long ago | A |
| My own dead mother gazed upon my face | B |
| As I stood blushing near in bridal snow | A |
| I had not half her beauty and her grace | B |
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| Yet that fond mother praised the world caressed | C |
| And ONE adored me how shall HE who soon | D |
| Shall wear my gentle flower upon his breast | C |
| Prize to its utmost worth the priceless boon | D |
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| Shall he not gird her guard her make her rich | E |
| Not as the world is rich in outward show | A |
| With all the love and watchful kindness which | E |
| A wise and tender manhood may bestow | A |
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| Oh I shall part from her with many tears | F |
| My earthly treasure pure and undefiled | A |
| And not without a weight of anxious fears | G |
| For the new future of my darling child | A |
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| And yet for well I know that virgin heart | A |
| No wifely duty will she leave undone | H |
| Nor will her love neglect that woman's art | A |
| Which courts and keeps a love already won | H |
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| In no light girlish levity she goes | I |
| Unto the altar where they wait her now | J |
| But with a thoughtful prayerful heart that knows | I |
| The solemn purport of a marriage vow | J |
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| And she will keep with all her soul's deep truth | K |
| The lightest pledge which binds her love and life | L |
| And she will be no less in age than youth | K |
| My noble child will be a noble wife | L |
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| And he her lover husband what of him | M |
| Yes he will shield I think my bud from blight | A |
| Yet griefs will come enough my eyes are dim | M |
| With tears I must not shed at least to night | A |
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| Bless thee my daughter Oh she is so fair | N |
| Heaven bend above thee with its starriest skies | O |
| And make thee truly all thou dost appear | P |
| Unto a lover's and thy mother's eyes | O |
Henry Timrod
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