Mother Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGE HIJI KLIL MNEN OPQP RISI TUAU| I never made a poem dear friend | A |
| I never sat me down and said | B |
| This cunning brain and patient hand | C |
| Shall fashion something to be read | B |
| Men often came to me and prayed | D |
| I should indite a fitting verse | E |
| For fast or festival or in | F |
| Some stately pageant to rehearse | E |
| As if than Balaam more endowed | G |
| I of myself could bless or curse | E |
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| Reluctantly I bade them go | H |
| Ungladdened by my poet mite | I |
| My heart is not so churlish but | J |
| Its loves to minister delight | I |
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| But not a word I breathe is mine | K |
| To sing in praise of man or God | L |
| My Master calls at noon or night | I |
| I know his whisper and his nod | L |
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| Yet all my thoyghts to rhythms run | M |
| To rhyme my wisdom and my wit | N |
| True I consume my life in verse | E |
| But wouldst thou know how that is writ | N |
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| 'T is thus through weary length of days | O |
| I bear a thought within my breast | P |
| That greatens from my growth of soul | Q |
| And waits and will not be expressed | P |
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| It greatens till its hour has come | R |
| Not without pain it sees the light | I |
| 'Twixt smiles and tears I view it o'er | S |
| And dare not deem it perfect quite | I |
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| These children of my soul I keep | T |
| Where scarce a mortal man may see | U |
| Yet not unconsecrate dear friend | A |
| Baptismal rites they claim of thee | U |
Julia Ward Howe
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