Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGHI JKLMNK A O PQRSETGUVWXC A PYZA2B2B C C2D2E2F2 C G2 H2I2HJ2K2JUEL2GM2| I | A |
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| Your love was like moonlight | B |
| turning harsh things to beauty | C |
| so that little wry souls | D |
| reflecting each other obliquely | C |
| as in cracked mirrors | E |
| beheld in your luminous spirit | F |
| their own reflection | G |
| transfigured as in a shining stream | H |
| and loved you for what they are not | I |
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| You are less an image in my mind | J |
| than a luster | K |
| I see you in gleams | L |
| pale as star light on a gray wall | M |
| evanescent as the reflection of a white swan | N |
| shimmering in broken water | K |
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| II | A |
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| To E S | O |
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| You inevitable | P |
| Unwieldy with enormous births | Q |
| Lying on your back eyes open sucking down stars | R |
| Or you kissing and picking over fresh deaths | S |
| Filth worms flowers | E |
| Green and succulent pods | T |
| Tremulous gestation | G |
| Of dark water germinal with lilies | U |
| All in you from the beginning | V |
| Nothing buried or thrown away | W |
| Only the moon like a white sheet | X |
| Spread over the dead you carry | C |
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| III | A |
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| To H | - |
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| Speeding gull | P |
| Passing under a cloud | Y |
| Caught on his white back | Z |
| You drop of crystal rain | A2 |
| Now you gleam softly triumphant | B2 |
| Folding immensities of light | B |
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| IV | - |
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| To O F T | C |
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| You have always gotten up after blows | C2 |
| And smiled and shaken off the dust | D2 |
| Only you could not shake the darkness | E2 |
| From off the bruised brown of your eyes | F2 |
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| V | C |
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| To E A R | G2 |
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| Centuries shall not deflect | H2 |
| nor many suns | I2 |
| absorb your stream | H |
| flowing immune and cold | J2 |
| between the banks of snow | K2 |
| Nor any wind | J |
| carry the dust of cities | U |
| to your high waters | E |
| that arise out of the peaks | L2 |
| and return again into the mountain | G |
| and never descend | M2 |
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