To My Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDCD| Gentlest of critics does your memory hold | A |
| I know it does a record of the days | B |
| When I a schoolboy earned your generous praise | B |
| For halting verse and stories crudely told | A |
| Over these childish scrawls the years have rolled | A |
| They might not know the world's unfriendly gaze | B |
| But still your smile shines down familiar ways | B |
| Touches my words and turns their dross to gold | A |
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| More dear to day than in that vanished time | C |
| Comes your nigh praise to make me proud and strong | D |
| In my poor notes you hear Love's splendid chime | C |
| So unto you does this my work belong | D |
| Take then a little gift of fragile rhyme | C |
| Your heart will change it to authentic song | D |
Joyce Kilmer
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