The Emigrant Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEAA FFGGEAEAHH IJHHAAAAHH KLADADMM N OEOEPP AA QRSRTT EEUU B BVW AAXYZAZADD A2UA2U

ONCE in a lonely hamlet I sojournedA
In which a Lady driven from France did dwellB
The big and lesser griefs with which she mournedA
In friendship she to me would often tellB
This Lady dwelling upon British groundA
Where she was childless daily would repairC
To a poor neighbouring cottage as I foundA
For sake of a young Child whose home was thereC
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Once having seen her clasp with fond embraceD
This Child I chanted to myself a layE
Endeavouring in our English tongue to traceD
Such things as she unto the Babe might sayE
And thus from what I heard and knew or guessedA
My song the workings of her heart expressedA
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'Dear Babe thou daughter of anotherF
One moment let me be thy motherF
An infant's face and looks are thineG
And sure a mother's heart is mineG
Thy own dear mother's far awayE
At labour in the harvest fieldA
Thy little sister is at playE
What warmth what comfort would it yieldA
To my poor heart if thou wouldst beH
One little hour a child to meH
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II-
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'Across the waters I am comeI
And I have left a babe at homeJ
A long long way of land and seaH
Come to me I'm no enemyH
I am the same who at thy sideA
Sate yesterday and made a nestA
For thee sweet Baby thou hast triedA
Thou know'st the pillow of my breastA
Good good art thou alas to meH
Far more than I can be to theeH
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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 fearsK
Mine art thou spite of these my tearsL
Alas before I left the spotA
My baby and its dwelling placeD
The nurse said to me 'Tears should notA
Be shed upon an infant's faceD
It was unlucky' no no noM
No truth is in them who say soM
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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 doomN
And you may see his hour is come '-
Oh had he but thy cheerful smilesO
Limbs stout as thine and lips as gayE
Thy looks thy cunning and thy wilesO
And countenance like a summer's dayE
They would have hopes of him and thenP
I should behold his face againP
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V-
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''Tis gone like dreams that we forgetA
There was a smile or two yet yetA
I can remember them I see-
The smiles worth all the world to me-
Dear Baby I must lay thee downQ
Thou troublest me with strange alarmsR
Smiles hast thou bright ones of thy ownS
I cannot keep thee in my armsR
For they confound me where where isT
That last that sweetest smile of hisT
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VI-
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'Oh how I love thee we will stayE
Together here this one half dayE
My sister's child who bears my nameU
From France to sheltering England cameU
She with her mother crossed the sea-
The babe and mother near me dwellB
Yet does my yearning heart to thee-
Turn rather though I love her wellB
Rest little Stranger rest thee hereV
Never was any child more dearW
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' I cannot help it ill intentA
I've none my pretty InnocentA
I weep I know they do thee wrongX
These tears and my poor idle tongueY
Oh what a kiss was that my cheekZ
How cold it is but thou art goodA
Thine eyes are on me they would speakZ
I think to help me if they couldA
Blessings upon that soft warm faceD
My heart again is in its placeD
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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 flowersA2
I'll call thee by my darling's nameU
Thou hast I think a look of oursA2
Thy features seem to me the sameU
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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