The Mother Of A Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCACDDEE FFEGHIIJJ KLKLBBL MKMNKKKOONPPQRRQSTTE SUUE KKNVKKWWVBXXBAYAYZRZ RJA2JA2She is too kind I think for mortal things | A |
Too gentle for the gusty ways of earth | B |
God gave to her a shy and silver mirth | B |
And made her soul as clear | C |
And softly singing as an orchard spring's | A |
In sheltered hollows all the sunny year | C |
A spring that thru the leaning grass looks up | D |
And holds all heaven in its clarid cup | D |
Mirror to holy meadows high and blue | E |
With stars like drops of dew | E |
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I love to think that never tears at night | F |
Have made her eyes less bright | F |
That all her girlhood thru | E |
Never a cry of love made over tense | G |
Her voice's innocence | H |
That in her hands have lain | I |
Flowers beaten by the rain | I |
And little birds before they learned to sing | J |
Drowned in the sudden ecstasy of spring | J |
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I love to think that with a wistful wonder | K |
She held her baby warm against her breast | L |
That never any fear awoke whereunder | K |
She shuddered at her gift or trembled lest | L |
Thru the great doors of birth | B |
Here to a windy earth | B |
She lured from heaven a half unwilling guest | L |
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She caught and kept his first vague flickering smile | M |
The faint upleaping of his spirit's fire | K |
And for a long sweet while | M |
In her was all he asked of earth or heaven | N |
But in the end how far | K |
Past every shaken star | K |
Should leap at last that arrow like desire | K |
His full grown manhood's keen | O |
Ardor toward the unseen | O |
Dark mystery beyond the Pleiads seven | N |
And in her heart she heard | P |
His first dim spoken word | P |
She only of them all could understand | Q |
Flushing to feel at last | R |
The silence over past | R |
Thrilling as tho' her hand had touched God's hand | Q |
But in the end how many words | S |
Winged on a flight she could not follow | T |
Farther than skyward lark or swallow | T |
His lips should free to lands she never knew | E |
Braver than white sea faring birds | S |
With a fearless melody | U |
Flying over a shining sea | U |
A star white song between the blue and blue | E |
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Oh I have seen a lake as clear and fair | K |
As it were molten air | K |
Lifting a lily upward to the sun | N |
How should the water know the glowing heart | V |
That ever to the heaven lifts its fire | K |
A golden and unchangeable desire | K |
The water only knows | W |
The faint and rosy glows | W |
Of under petals opening apart | V |
Yet in the soul of earth | B |
Deep in the primal ground | X |
Its searching roots are wound | X |
And centuries have struggled toward its birth | B |
So in the man who sings | A |
All of the voiceless horde | Y |
From the cold dawn of things | A |
Have their reward | Y |
All in whose pulses ran | Z |
Blood that is his at last | R |
From the first stooping man | Z |
Far in the winnowed past | R |
Out of the tumult of their love and mating | J |
Each one created seeing life was good | A2 |
Dumb till at last the song that they were waiting | J |
Breaks like brave April thru a wintry wood | A2 |
Sara Teasdale
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