The Only Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG GGHH GGII JJII IIII KKL| His mother died last year and yet | A |
| She wearied Heaven with fear and fret | A |
| Wanting the son she left behind | B |
| And God was patient being kind | B |
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| He was so beautiful so young | C |
| Slender as a tall tree wind swung | C |
| Innocent gay she went in fear | D |
| Something might hurt him lacking her | E |
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| She heard amid the starry mirth | F |
| Rumour of dreadful things on earth | F |
| Of sweet youth slain and beauty marred | G |
| Beyond all balm and spikenard | G |
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| Oh had she visions of his plight | G |
| Lying in the red rain at night | G |
| Amid the piteous heap of slain | H |
| That she was wild with fear and pain | H |
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| God gives His angels But she went | G |
| Uncomforted and discontent | G |
| Because no angel ever knew | I |
| The way to love that mothers do | I |
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| And so she wearied Heaven with prayer | J |
| Her knees for ever on God's stair | J |
| Her troubled thoughts for ever abeat | I |
| Like wings about the Mercy Seat | I |
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| At last God heard her Swift as the wind | I |
| His messenger went forth to find | I |
| Her son and bring him to her breast | I |
| So that at last her heart might rest | I |
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| She died a year ago and still | K |
| Her cup of Heaven's untasted till | K |
| God's messenger returns to say | L |
| 'He fell in action yesterday ' | - |
Katharine Tynan
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