A Salem Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBC DCDCDC EFEFEF A CACAGEGHGH A IJJ KAA LMM CNCNON CPCPAP CFCFQF

IA
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They whisper at my very gateB
These clacking gossips every oneC
We saw them in the wood of lateB
Her and the widow's sonC
The horses at the forge may waitB
The wool may go unspunC
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I spread the food he loves the bestD
I light the lamp when day is doneC
Yet still he stays another's guestD
Oh my one son my sonC
I would it burned in mine own breastD
The spell he may not shunC
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She hath bewitched him with her eyesE
No goodly maid hath eyes as brightF
Pale in the morn I watch him riseE
As one who wanders far by nightF
The gossips whisper and surmiseE
I hide me from the lightF
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IIA
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Her hair is yellow as the cornC
Her eyes are bluer than the skyA
Behind the casement yester mornC
I watched her passing byA
My son not yet had broken breadG
Yet from the table did he riseE
She said no word nor turned her headG
What then the spell that bade him stirH
Nor heeding any word I saidG
Put by my hands and follow herH
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IIIA
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He was so strong and wise and goodI
Was there no other she might takeJ
Nor other mothers' hearts to breakJ
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What though she bade the harvest failK
What though she willed the cattle dieA
So my son's soul was spared therebyA
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My cattle fill the pasture landL
The ripe fruit thickens on the treeM
My son my son is lost to meM
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They burned a witch in our townC
On hangman's hill to dayN
And black the ashes drifted downC
Ashes black and greyN
Not white like those o' martyred folkO
Whose souls are clean as theyN
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They burned a witch in our townC
Upon a windy hillP
For that she made the wells sink downC
And wrought a young man illP
The smoke rose black against the skyA
And hangs before it stillP
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They burned a witch in our townC
And sure they did but rightF
And yet I would the rain could drownC
That blackened hill from sightF
And some great wind might drive that cloudQ
'Twixt God and me this nightF

Theodosia Garrison



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