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 CCCto outer thing I lay | A |
And 'Go ' she said 'and tell the broken hearted | B |
What now my will shall to thy mind convey | A |
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'I've passed the portals I so often dreaded | C |
And by the fiery trial unconsumed | C |
I find myself to life not death yet wedded | C |
Even I whose relics you beheld entombed | C |
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'To me the baubles of the world have vanished | C |
Even with the garments I behind have left | C |
But not one treasure from my heart is banished | C |
Not of one golden hope am I bereft | C |
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'The self same soul am I the self same being | D |
In every human faculty the same | E |
Save with a clearer keener sense of seeing | D |
What path to glory leads and what to shame | E |
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'The wife's devotion and affection tender | F |
The mother's sweet solicitude and all | G |
That did our home a thing of beauty render | F |
Is mine or haunts me still and ever shall | H |
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'Even from my sphere beyond your sphere located | C |
I'm oft permitted to return return | I |
To seek the halls my change left desolated | C |
To bless the dear ones left that change to mourn | J |
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'I see the brave man by the hearth stone sitting | D |
To whom my being was and yet is wed | C |
I see the past before his vision flitting | D |
I see the tear drops for his lost one shed | C |
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'Not void of hope the dust be saw enshrouded | C |
Itself was but a cerement to a soul | K |
Whose vision never could by death be clouded | C |
He yet hath sorrows he can not control | K |
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'Full often o'er the welkin of his vision | L |
I see an ebon cloudlet stealing when | M |
A sigh is uttered lest his hope elysian | M |
Is but a phantom of the minds of men | M |
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'Upon my knees unseen before him kneeling | D |
I gaze into those eyes tear blinded till | N |
A sense of sadness yieldeth to a feeling | D |
As sweet as ever did a bosom thrill | N |
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'I point the images of those yet living | D |
Thus speak I still as I when with you spake | O |
When from the past into the present driven | M |
His heart is up and toiling for their sake | O |
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''Even for my girl ' he cries 'so bright and airy | P |
Even for my little boy just lisping I | Q |
Must try this death bell monotone to vary | P |
And on life's harp awake life's battle cry ' | - |
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'As he resolveth even so he doeth | R |
And all the little I can do I do | C |
To help him to the object he pursueth | R |
Or open vistas brighter to his view | C |
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'I cannot wash as wont our jewels' faces | S |
I cannot comb as wont their golden hair | T |
But I can lock them in my fond embraces | U |
And I can gild their minds with fancies rare | T |
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'I cannot fetch the lisper sweet his rattle | V |
Nor for the other the piano ring | D |
But I can aid my boy child in his prattle | V |
And I can prompt my girl child how to sing | D |
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'I cannot lead them to the daisied meadows | W |
But I can over look them when they're there | T |
And give a golden glow to passing shadows | W |
And make the fair sunshine to them more fair | T |
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'I cannot give them supper in the even | M |
Nor on the morn to them their toast convey | A |
But when they kneel before the Lord of heaven | M |
Them I can prompt for what and how to pray | A |
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'Ay tho' they cannot see or hear me ever | F |
Into the soul of babe and father flows | W |
The presence of their mourn'd one like a river | F |
That wakens music where so e'er it goes | W |
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'So as by those the idols of my bosom | X |
Touch'd by the carol of the unseen bird | C |
Touch'd by the perfume of the unseen blossom | X |
The hearts of others to their depths are stirr'd | C |
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'Nay by each spirit sweet with whom my spirit | C |
In state harmonic moved and breathed I'm felt | C |
And still alive to every form of merit | C |
Still dwells my love with those with whom it dwelt | C |
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'Alive to these to each high aspiration | M |
To every base born passion yet alive | Y |
To all that tendeth to man's elevation | M |
To all that downward cloth the spirit drive | Y |
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'Alive to all most worthy to be cherish'd | C |
Alive to all should most excite our dread | C |
And being thus albeit the body's perish'd | C |
How can it be averr'd that I am dead ' | - |
Joseph Skipsey
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