Epilogue: To A Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDBCEFGGEFHIJJHIBK LLBK| On seeing her smile repeated in her daughter's eyes | A |
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| A thousand songs I might have made | B |
| Of You and only You | C |
| A thousand thousand tongues of fire | D |
| That trembled down a golden wire | D |
| To lamp the night with stars to braid | B |
| The morning bough with dew | C |
| Within the greenwood girl and boy | E |
| Had loiter'd to their lure | F |
| And men in cities closed their books | G |
| To dream of Spring and running brooks | G |
| And all that ever was of joy | E |
| For manhood to abjure | F |
| And I'd have made them strong so strong | H |
| Outlasting towers and towns | I |
| Millennial shepherds 'neath the thorn | J |
| Had piped them to a world reborn | J |
| And danced Delight the dale along | H |
| And up the daisied downs | I |
| A thousand songs I might have made | B |
| But you required them not | K |
| Content to reign your little while | L |
| Ere abdicating with a smile | L |
| You pass'd into a shade a shade | B |
| Immortal and forgot | K |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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