On The Death Of His Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPPQQRRCCSTUU VVOOWWXXYYZA2B2C2D2D 2OOE2E2OO| Ye fabled Muses I your aid disclaim | A |
| Your airy raptures and your fancied flame | A |
| True genuine woe my throbbing breast inspires | B |
| Love prompts my lays and filial duty fires | C |
| My soul springs instant at the warm design | D |
| And the heart dictates every flowing line | D |
| See where the kindest best of mothers lies | E |
| And death has closed her ever watching eyes | E |
| Has lodged at last in peace her weary breast | F |
| And lulled her many piercing cares to rest | F |
| No more the orphan train around her stands | G |
| While her full heart upbraids her needy hands | G |
| No more the widow's lonely fate she feels | H |
| The shock severe that modest want conceals | H |
| The oppressor's scourge the scorn of wealthy pride | I |
| And poverty's unnumbered ills beside | I |
| For see attended by the angelic throng | J |
| Through yonder worlds of light she glides along | J |
| And claims the well earned raptures of the sky | K |
| Yet fond concern recalls the mother's eye | K |
| She seeks the helpless orphans left behind | L |
| So hardly left so bitterly resigned | L |
| Still still is she my soul's diurnal theme | M |
| The waking vision and the wailing dream | M |
| Amid the ruddy sun's enlivening blaze | N |
| O'er my dark eyes her dewy image plays | N |
| And in the dread dominion of the night | O |
| Shines out again the sadly pleasing sight | O |
| Triumphant virtue all around her darts | P |
| And more than volumes every look imparts | P |
| Looks soft yet awful melting yet serene | Q |
| Where both the mother and the saint are seen | Q |
| But ah that night that torturing night remains | R |
| May darkness dye it with the deepest stains | R |
| May joy on it forsake her rosy bowers | C |
| And streaming sorrow blast its baleful hours | C |
| When on the margin of the briny flood | S |
| Chilld with a sad presaging damp I stood | T |
| Took the last look ne'er to behold her more | U |
| And mixed our murmurs with the wavy roar | U |
| Heard the last words fall from her pious tongue | V |
| Then wild into the bulging vessel flung | V |
| Which soon too soon conveyed me from her sight | O |
| Dearer than life and liberty and light | O |
| Why was I then ye powers reserved for this | W |
| Nor sunk that moment in the vast abyss | W |
| Devoured at once by the relentless wave | X |
| And whelmed for ever in a watery grave | X |
| Down ye wild wishes of unruly woe | Y |
| I see her with immortal beauty glow | Y |
| The early wrinkle care contracted gone | Z |
| Her tears all wiped and all her sorrows flown | A2 |
| The exalting voice of Heaven I hear her breathe | B2 |
| To soothe her soul in agonies of death | C2 |
| I see her through the mansions blessed above | D2 |
| And now she meets her dear expecting love | D2 |
| Heart cheering sight but yet alas o'erspread | O |
| By the dark gloom of Grief's uncheerful shade | O |
| Come then of reason the reflecting hour | E2 |
| And let me trust the kind o'erruling Power | E2 |
| Who from the night commands the shining day | O |
| The poor man's portion and the orphan's stay | O |
James Thomson
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