Some Mother's Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDB EEFF GHII JJKK LLDD MNOO PEDD QQFF LLRR SSTT UVWW SXYZ| The battle cry is sounding loud a bugle calls to arm | A |
| The hills and dales are clouded o'er troops gather in alarm | A |
| With winds is mingled sighing prayer from many a sinking brave | B |
| A youth obeying duty's call a life his country gave | B |
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| A soldier boy's dying cry is heard amid the roar | C |
| Of battle strife surround with slain he falls to rise no more | C |
| Some mother's boy it matters not if clad in blue or gray | D |
| If fighting for the right or wrong is hurried to his grave | B |
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| Amid the beats of drum and fife his pillow but a sod | E |
| With folded hands and marble brow his soul returns to God | E |
| Some mother's boy is resting where the lonely willows weep | F |
| And voices waft with waving trees while angels watch him sleep | F |
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| Now comes along the highway a dusty tramp forlorn | G |
| A tattered coat conceals beneath a bent and aged form | H |
| With hardened weary visage a bell he faintly rings | I |
| The air is rent with pitying notes an angel softly sings | I |
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| Upon this frozen nature no love for years has shown | J |
| His life is made of cruel words and knows no kindly tone | J |
| And could you see into his past as mother clasped her boy | K |
| He then was innocent and fair her pride her hope her joy | K |
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| She never dreamed her darling child a weary tramp would be | L |
| For o'er his tasks or youthful sports he laughed in childish glee | L |
| Perhaps he sinned but O forget for suffering must repay | D |
| And someone's boy has now become wretched old and gray | D |
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| Within a large and gilded hall a revel wild is held | M |
| The sound of oaths and laughter loud upon the breezes swell | N |
| A man is seen with bloated face come reeling to the streets | O |
| He turns his fierce and lurid eyes as friends he loudly greets | O |
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| Some mother's boy has fallen low we hear the broken sob | P |
| Of angels who have watched for years his footsteps turn from God | E |
| Someone's prayers have oft been made o'er him in childhood's day | D |
| When rocked in love he knew no wrong a smiling infant lay | D |
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| Some mother's tears have freely flowed and lonely vigils kept | Q |
| Some mother's heart has often bled while others coldly slept | Q |
| Some mother suffers for the wrong and angels sadly weep | F |
| Whene'er some careless wayward son has sown what he must reap | F |
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| A scaffold high with spreading arms on yonder height we see | L |
| It waits to take its victim's life exulting cruelly | L |
| While zephyr's blow birds hover o'er a soul in dire distress | R |
| With troubled gaze breathes out a prayer Will God attend and bless | R |
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| What matter if he's clothed in sin what matter if he's wild | S |
| In foulest guilt Remember that he is somebody's child | S |
| We cannot tell how hard he strove to shun temptation's snare | T |
| How often on his mother's breast he wept in his despair | T |
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| How oft her lips had softly pressed his dimpled infant cheek | U |
| How oft her hand in love caressed the sinless baby feet | V |
| Then strangers pause and listen well so might your own have been | W |
| But Christ can freely pardon all though scarlet be his sin | W |
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| Some mother's boy The sweet refrain is breathed in accents mild | S |
| Some mother's boy If bent and gray if pure or all denied | X |
| Some mother's boy Soft bells repeat in sad and sweetest chime | Y |
| Some mother's boy A mother sighs perhaps he may be mine | Z |
Mary Alice Walton
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