A Colloquy: (for M. W.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DED F GH IJIK L LM NOP| 'When you get to Heaven seek and find my boy | A |
| Mother him ' 'Until you come ' 'I shall never come | B |
| Earth was good enough for me who had all my joy | A |
| In my Love my Light of home | C |
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| 'But to him be given in overflowing measure | D |
| All the joys your Heaven can give if your God be just | E |
| He my boy slain in his youth to serve some mad king's pleasure | D |
| And his dreams and hopes in dust ' | - |
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| 'How shall I know him where so many boys are | F |
| Multitudes and multitudes ever they increase ' | - |
| 'Oh my boy is young and tall with bird russet hair | G |
| And quiet eyes of peace | H |
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| 'He who was killed in a quarrel not his own | I |
| All his days he had good will to his fellow men | J |
| Oh your God is kind and just shall He not atone | I |
| And the dark ways be made plain | K |
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| 'Seek my son and find him so he shall not miss | L |
| Me his mother comrade through his length of days ' | - |
| 'Oh but he would turn from a strange woman's kiss | L |
| And ask where his mother delays | M |
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| 'So be up and going for the way's not long | N |
| God who kissed His Mother dear a Babe in Nazareth | O |
| Knows how they need mother love the dear and precious young | P |
| In the new Life where is no Death ' | - |
Katharine Tynan
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