A Mother's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA CDCDDC EFEFFE GHIHHG AJAKKA| Over fast closed baby eyes | A |
| In the garden's golden air | B |
| Blossom white the butterflies | A |
| Hover hurry part and pair | B |
| Sudden shinings flown nowhere | B |
| Blue above the unbounded skies | A |
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| Little one O downy head | C |
| O fingers clasping shaped and small | D |
| Laid in soft nest of your bed | C |
| How the trees are Titan tall | D |
| Over you that slumber all | D |
| Ignorant of hope and dread | C |
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| O so small and all around | E |
| Life so vast works wonders new | F |
| Yet to you is set no bound | E |
| What you shall desire and do | F |
| Find and fashion and hold true | F |
| Deeps you hold no thought can sound | E |
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| You are sought by powers unknown | G |
| On your trembling heart strings play | H |
| Airs unheard O little one | I |
| Whisperings of far away | H |
| Music made of day and day | H |
| Lands of promise all your own | G |
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| Wide as heaven the secrecies | A |
| You enfold ev'n now ev'n here | J |
| You presage infinities | A |
| While above in hope in fear | K |
| My white wishes far and near | K |
| Hover like the butterflies | A |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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