Any Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DED FGF HFI JKJK LFLF| 'What's the news Now tell it me ' | A |
| 'Allenby again advances ' | A |
| 'No it is not Allenby | B |
| But my boy straight as a lance is | C |
| - | |
| 'Oh my boy it is that runs | D |
| Hurls his young and slender body | E |
| On the dread death dealing guns | D |
| Oh he's down his head is bloody ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Haig's offensive has begun ' | - |
| 'Say not Haig's nor any other | F |
| Since it is my one sweet son | G |
| In the gases' risk and smother | F |
| - | |
| 'He is taken by the throat | H |
| In the bursting flame will quiver | F |
| He the billet for all shot | I |
| He the shell's objective ever ' | - |
| - | |
| So not Allenby nor Haig | J |
| But her darling goes to battle | K |
| All the world's red mist and vague | J |
| Shattered by the scream and rattle | K |
| - | |
| Just one slender shape she sees | L |
| One bright head tossed hither thither | F |
| Oh if he goes down the seas | L |
| Whelm her and the world together | F |
Katharine Tynan
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