The Angel Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA CCCC CCCC DEDE FGFH CICJ DCDC CKCK LMMM DNDN DOMO PQP RCRC STUT VDVD WTWT MAMA FWFW XCXC CCCC MYMY CCC

to outer thing I layA
And 'Go ' she said 'and tell the broken heartedB
What now my will shall to thy mind conveyA
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'I've passed the portals I so often dreadedC
And by the fiery trial unconsumedC
I find myself to life not death yet weddedC
Even I whose relics you beheld entombedC
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'To me the baubles of the world have vanishedC
Even with the garments I behind have leftC
But not one treasure from my heart is banishedC
Not of one golden hope am I bereftC
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'The self same soul am I the self same beingD
In every human faculty the sameE
Save with a clearer keener sense of seeingD
What path to glory leads and what to shameE
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'The wife's devotion and affection tenderF
The mother's sweet solicitude and allG
That did our home a thing of beauty renderF
Is mine or haunts me still and ever shallH
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'Even from my sphere beyond your sphere locatedC
I'm oft permitted to return returnI
To seek the halls my change left desolatedC
To bless the dear ones left that change to mournJ
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'I see the brave man by the hearth stone sittingD
To whom my being was and yet is wedC
I see the past before his vision flittingD
I see the tear drops for his lost one shedC
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'Not void of hope the dust be saw enshroudedC
Itself was but a cerement to a soulK
Whose vision never could by death be cloudedC
He yet hath sorrows he can not controlK
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'Full often o'er the welkin of his visionL
I see an ebon cloudlet stealing whenM
A sigh is uttered lest his hope elysianM
Is but a phantom of the minds of menM
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'Upon my knees unseen before him kneelingD
I gaze into those eyes tear blinded tillN
A sense of sadness yieldeth to a feelingD
As sweet as ever did a bosom thrillN
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'I point the images of those yet livingD
Thus speak I still as I when with you spakeO
When from the past into the present drivenM
His heart is up and toiling for their sakeO
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''Even for my girl ' he cries 'so bright and airyP
Even for my little boy just lisping IQ
Must try this death bell monotone to varyP
And on life's harp awake life's battle cry '-
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'As he resolveth even so he doethR
And all the little I can do I doC
To help him to the object he pursuethR
Or open vistas brighter to his viewC
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'I cannot wash as wont our jewels' facesS
I cannot comb as wont their golden hairT
But I can lock them in my fond embracesU
And I can gild their minds with fancies rareT
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'I cannot fetch the lisper sweet his rattleV
Nor for the other the piano ringD
But I can aid my boy child in his prattleV
And I can prompt my girl child how to singD
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'I cannot lead them to the daisied meadowsW
But I can over look them when they're thereT
And give a golden glow to passing shadowsW
And make the fair sunshine to them more fairT
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'I cannot give them supper in the evenM
Nor on the morn to them their toast conveyA
But when they kneel before the Lord of heavenM
Them I can prompt for what and how to prayA
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'Ay tho' they cannot see or hear me everF
Into the soul of babe and father flowsW
The presence of their mourn'd one like a riverF
That wakens music where so e'er it goesW
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'So as by those the idols of my bosomX
Touch'd by the carol of the unseen birdC
Touch'd by the perfume of the unseen blossomX
The hearts of others to their depths are stirr'dC
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'Nay by each spirit sweet with whom my spiritC
In state harmonic moved and breathed I'm feltC
And still alive to every form of meritC
Still dwells my love with those with whom it dweltC
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'Alive to these to each high aspirationM
To every base born passion yet aliveY
To all that tendeth to man's elevationM
To all that downward cloth the spirit driveY
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'Alive to all most worthy to be cherish'dC
Alive to all should most excite our dreadC
And being thus albeit the body's perish'dC
How can it be averr'd that I am dead '-

Joseph Skipsey



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