The Mother's Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHBH IJBJ CKBL MNBN OPQP| I have a dream a dreadful dream | A |
| A dream that is never done | B |
| I watch a man go out of his mind | C |
| And he is My Mother's Son | B |
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| They pushed him into a Mental Home | D |
| And that is like the grave | E |
| For they do not let you sleep upstairs | F |
| And you aren't allowed to shave | E |
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| And it was not disease or crime | G |
| Which got him landed there | H |
| But because They laid on My Mother's Son | B |
| More than a man could bear | H |
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| What with noise and fear of death | I |
| Waking and wounds and cold | J |
| They filled the Cup for My Mother's Son | B |
| Fuller than it could hold | J |
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| They broke his body and his mind | C |
| And yet They made him live | K |
| And They asked more of My Mother's Son | B |
| Than any man could give | L |
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| For just because he had not died | M |
| Nor been discharged nor sick | N |
| They dragged it out with My Mother's Son | B |
| Longer than he could stick | N |
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| And no one knows when he'll get well | O |
| So there he'll have to be | P |
| And 'spite of the beard in the looking glass | Q |
| I know that man is me | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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