Mammy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM ABAC| I often wonder how | A |
| Life clicks because | B |
| They don't make women now | A |
| Like Mammy was | C |
| When broods of two or three | D |
| Content most men | E |
| How wonderful was she | D |
| With children ten | E |
| - | |
| Though sixty years have gone | F |
| As I look back | G |
| I see her rise at dawn | F |
| Our boots to black | G |
| Pull us from drowsy bed | H |
| Wet sponge to pass | I |
| And speed us porridge fed | H |
| To morning class | I |
| - | |
| Our duds to make and mend | J |
| Far into night | K |
| O'er needle she would spend | J |
| By bleary light | K |
| Yet as her head drooped low | L |
| With withered hair | M |
| It seemed the candle glow | L |
| Made halo there | M |
| - | |
| And so with silvered pow | A |
| I sigh because | B |
| They don't make women now | A |
| Like Mammy was | C |
Robert Service
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