The Mother Of A Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCACDDEE FFEGHIIJJ KLKLBBL MKMNKKKOONPPQRRQSTTE SUUE KKNVKKWWVBXXBAYAYZRZ RJA2JA2

She is too kind I think for mortal thingsA
Too gentle for the gusty ways of earthB
God gave to her a shy and silver mirthB
And made her soul as clearC
And softly singing as an orchard spring'sA
In sheltered hollows all the sunny yearC
A spring that thru the leaning grass looks upD
And holds all heaven in its clarid cupD
Mirror to holy meadows high and blueE
With stars like drops of dewE
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I love to think that never tears at nightF
Have made her eyes less brightF
That all her girlhood thruE
Never a cry of love made over tenseG
Her voice's innocenceH
That in her hands have lainI
Flowers beaten by the rainI
And little birds before they learned to singJ
Drowned in the sudden ecstasy of springJ
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I love to think that with a wistful wonderK
She held her baby warm against her breastL
That never any fear awoke whereunderK
She shuddered at her gift or trembled lestL
Thru the great doors of birthB
Here to a windy earthB
She lured from heaven a half unwilling guestL
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She caught and kept his first vague flickering smileM
The faint upleaping of his spirit's fireK
And for a long sweet whileM
In her was all he asked of earth or heavenN
But in the end how farK
Past every shaken starK
Should leap at last that arrow like desireK
His full grown manhood's keenO
Ardor toward the unseenO
Dark mystery beyond the Pleiads sevenN
And in her heart she heardP
His first dim spoken wordP
She only of them all could understandQ
Flushing to feel at lastR
The silence over pastR
Thrilling as tho' her hand had touched God's handQ
But in the end how many wordsS
Winged on a flight she could not followT
Farther than skyward lark or swallowT
His lips should free to lands she never knewE
Braver than white sea faring birdsS
With a fearless melodyU
Flying over a shining seaU
A star white song between the blue and blueE
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Oh I have seen a lake as clear and fairK
As it were molten airK
Lifting a lily upward to the sunN
How should the water know the glowing heartV
That ever to the heaven lifts its fireK
A golden and unchangeable desireK
The water only knowsW
The faint and rosy glowsW
Of under petals opening apartV
Yet in the soul of earthB
Deep in the primal groundX
Its searching roots are woundX
And centuries have struggled toward its birthB
So in the man who singsA
All of the voiceless hordeY
From the cold dawn of thingsA
Have their rewardY
All in whose pulses ranZ
Blood that is his at lastR
From the first stooping manZ
Far in the winnowed pastR
Out of the tumult of their love and matingJ
Each one created seeing life was goodA2
Dumb till at last the song that they were waitingJ
Breaks like brave April thru a wintry woodA2

Sara Teasdale



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