Mother Doorstep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCC DD E FFGG HHI CCEE| Unto the Person kind there came | A |
| A young girl bearing her fruit of shame | A |
| She fell and it had to pay the price | B |
| Innocent Lamb of Sacrifice | B |
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| Lovingly then the Person smiled | C |
| Gazing upon the face of the child | C |
| Smiled like an ogress 'Don't despond | C |
| I am of children all too fond ' | - |
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| Then said the mother speaking low | D |
| Kissing the babe she had born in woe | D |
| 'Treat him tenderly nurse him well ' | - |
| Hotly the tears on the baby fell | E |
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| Taking the mother's coin with a leer | F |
| Ogress remarked 'Don't cry my dear | F |
| Motherly persons to me are known | G |
| One is named Wood and another Stone | G |
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| 'Either of them will your baby keep | H |
| Hushing him into a soft long sleep | H |
| Crooning a lonesome lullaby song | I |
| They have been used to children long ' | - |
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| Cold and yet kind was the nurse's breast | C |
| Cold fell the rain on the babe at rest | C |
| Pale was his face as an immortelle | E |
| Old Mother Doorstep had nursed him well | E |
Victor James Daley
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