The Mother's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEC FGD CHIH JEBE DKLE MENE OPCP CQRQ CBS TUVU WXYX ZA2B2A2 C2KJKA MONTH sweet Little ones is past | A |
Since your dear Mother went away | B |
And she tomorrow will return | C |
Tomorrow is the happy day | B |
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O blessed tidings thought of joy | D |
The eldest heard with steady glee | E |
Silent he stood then laughed amain | C |
And shouted ' Mother come to me ' | - |
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Louder and louder did he shout | F |
With witless hope to bring her near | G |
'Nay patience patience little boy | D |
Your tender mother cannot hear ' | - |
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I told of hills and far off town | C |
And long long vale to travel through | H |
He listens puzzled sore perplexed | I |
But he submits what can he do | H |
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No strife disturbs his sister's breast | J |
She wars not with the mystery | E |
Of time and distance night and day | B |
The bonds of our humanity | E |
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Her joy is like an instinct joy | D |
Of kitten bird or summer fly | K |
She dances runs without an aim | L |
She chatters in her ecstasy | E |
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Her brother now takes up the note | M |
And echoes back his sister's glee | E |
They hug the infant in my arms | N |
As if to force his sympathy | E |
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Then settling into fond discourse | O |
We rested in the garden bower | P |
While sweetly shone the evening sun | C |
In his departing hour | P |
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We told o'er all that we had done | C |
Our rambles by the swift brook's side | Q |
Far as the willow skirted pool | R |
Where two fair swans together glide | Q |
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We talked of change of winter gone | C |
Of green leaves on the hawthorn spray | B |
Of birds that build their nests and sing | S |
And all 'since Mother went away ' | - |
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To her these tales they will repeat | T |
To her our new born tribes will show | U |
The goslings green the ass's colt | V |
The lambs that in the meadow go | U |
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But see the evening star comes forth | W |
To bed the children must depart | X |
A moment's heaviness they feel | Y |
A sadness at the heart | X |
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'Tis gone and in a merry fit | Z |
They run up stairs in gamesome race | A2 |
I too infected by their mood | B2 |
I could have joined the wanton chase | A2 |
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Five minutes past and O the change | C2 |
Asleep upon their beds they lie | K |
Their buy limbs in perfect rest | J |
And closed the sparkling eye | K |
William Wordsworth
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