His Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCC D D EE FFG HH| In the first dawn she lifted from her bed | A |
| The holy silver of her noble head | A |
| And listened listened listened for his tread | A |
| 'Too soon too soon ' she murmured 'Yet I'll keep | B |
| My vigil longer thou O tender Sleep | B |
| Art but the joy of those who wake and weep | B |
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| 'Joy's self hath keen wide eyes O flesh of mine | C |
| And mine own blood and bone the very wine | C |
| Of my aged heart I see thy dear eyes shine | C |
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| 'I hear thy tread thy light loved footsteps run | D |
| Along the way eager for that 'Well done ' | - |
| We'll weep and kiss to thee my soldier son | D |
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| 'Blest mother I he lives Yet had he died | E |
| Blest were I still I sent him on the tide | E |
| Of my full heart to save his nation's pride ' | - |
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| 'O God if that I tremble so to day | F |
| Bowed with such blessings that I cannot pray | F |
| By speech a mother prays dear Lord alway | G |
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| 'In some far fibre of her trembling mind | H |
| I'll up I thought I heard a bugle bind | H |
| Its silver with the silver of the wind ' | - |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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