The Emigrant Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEAA FFGGEAEAHH IJHHAAAAHH KLADADMM N OEOEPP AA QRSRTT EEUU B BVW AAXYZAZADD A2UA2UONCE in a lonely hamlet I sojourned | A |
In which a Lady driven from France did dwell | B |
The big and lesser griefs with which she mourned | A |
In friendship she to me would often tell | B |
This Lady dwelling upon British ground | A |
Where she was childless daily would repair | C |
To a poor neighbouring cottage as I found | A |
For sake of a young Child whose home was there | C |
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Once having seen her clasp with fond embrace | D |
This Child I chanted to myself a lay | E |
Endeavouring in our English tongue to trace | D |
Such things as she unto the Babe might say | E |
And thus from what I heard and knew or guessed | A |
My song the workings of her heart expressed | A |
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I | - |
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'Dear Babe thou daughter of another | F |
One moment let me be thy mother | F |
An infant's face and looks are thine | G |
And sure a mother's heart is mine | G |
Thy own dear mother's far away | E |
At labour in the harvest field | A |
Thy little sister is at play | E |
What warmth what comfort would it yield | A |
To my poor heart if thou wouldst be | H |
One little hour a child to me | H |
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II | - |
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'Across the waters I am come | I |
And I have left a babe at home | J |
A long long way of land and sea | H |
Come to me I'm no enemy | H |
I am the same who at thy side | A |
Sate yesterday and made a nest | A |
For thee sweet Baby thou hast tried | A |
Thou know'st the pillow of my breast | A |
Good good art thou alas to me | H |
Far more than I can be to thee | H |
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III | - |
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'Here little Darling dost thou lie | - |
An infant thou a mother I | - |
Mine wilt thou be thou hast no fears | K |
Mine art thou spite of these my tears | L |
Alas before I left the spot | A |
My baby and its dwelling place | D |
The nurse said to me 'Tears should not | A |
Be shed upon an infant's face | D |
It was unlucky' no no no | M |
No truth is in them who say so | M |
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IV | - |
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'My own dear Little one will sigh | - |
Sweet Babe and they will let him die | - |
'He pines ' they'll say 'it is his doom | N |
And you may see his hour is come ' | - |
Oh had he but thy cheerful smiles | O |
Limbs stout as thine and lips as gay | E |
Thy looks thy cunning and thy wiles | O |
And countenance like a summer's day | E |
They would have hopes of him and then | P |
I should behold his face again | P |
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V | - |
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''Tis gone like dreams that we forget | A |
There was a smile or two yet yet | A |
I can remember them I see | - |
The smiles worth all the world to me | - |
Dear Baby I must lay thee down | Q |
Thou troublest me with strange alarms | R |
Smiles hast thou bright ones of thy own | S |
I cannot keep thee in my arms | R |
For they confound me where where is | T |
That last that sweetest smile of his | T |
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VI | - |
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'Oh how I love thee we will stay | E |
Together here this one half day | E |
My sister's child who bears my name | U |
From France to sheltering England came | U |
She with her mother crossed the sea | - |
The babe and mother near me dwell | B |
Yet does my yearning heart to thee | - |
Turn rather though I love her well | B |
Rest little Stranger rest thee here | V |
Never was any child more dear | W |
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VII | - |
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' I cannot help it ill intent | A |
I've none my pretty Innocent | A |
I weep I know they do thee wrong | X |
These tears and my poor idle tongue | Y |
Oh what a kiss was that my cheek | Z |
How cold it is but thou art good | A |
Thine eyes are on me they would speak | Z |
I think to help me if they could | A |
Blessings upon that soft warm face | D |
My heart again is in its place | D |
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VIII | - |
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'While thou art mine my little Love | - |
This cannot be a sorrowful grove | - |
Contentment hope and mother's glee | - |
I seem to find them all in thee | - |
Here's grass to play with here are flowers | A2 |
I'll call thee by my darling's name | U |
Thou hast I think a look of ours | A2 |
Thy features seem to me the same | U |
His little sister thou shalt be | - |
And when once more my home I see | - |
I'll tell him many tales of Thee ' | - |
William Wordsworth
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