Two Pictures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDD EFGFFHH IJIJJKK LMLNNOO| One sits in soft light where the hearth is warm | A |
| A halo like an angel's on her hair | B |
| She clasps a sleeping infant in her arm | C |
| A holy presence hovers round her there | B |
| And she for all her mother pains more fair | B |
| Is happy seeing that all sweet thoughts that stir | D |
| The hearts of men bear worship unto her | D |
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| Another wanders where the cold wind blows | E |
| Wet haired with eyes that sting one like a knife | F |
| Homeless forever at her bosom close | G |
| She holds the purchase of her love and life | F |
| Of motherhood unglorified as wife | F |
| And bitterer than the world's relentless scorn | H |
| The knowing her child were happier never born | H |
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| Whence are the halo and the fiery shame | I |
| That fashion thus a crown and curse of love | J |
| Have roted words such power to bless and blame | I |
| Ay men have stained a raven from many a dove | J |
| And all the grace and all the grief hereof | J |
| Are the two words which bore one's lips apart | K |
| And which the other hoarded in her heart | K |
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| He who stooped down and wrote upon the sand | L |
| The God heart in him touched to tenderness | M |
| Saw deep saw what we cannot understand | L |
| We who draw near the shrine of one to bless | N |
| The while we scourge another's sore distress | N |
| And judge like gods between the ill and good | O |
| The glory and the guilt of womanhood | O |
John Charles Mcneill
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