The Mother's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEC FGD CHIH JEBE DKLE MENE OPCP CQRQ CBS TUVU WXYX ZA2B2A2 C2KJK

A MONTH sweet Little ones is pastA
Since your dear Mother went awayB
And she tomorrow will returnC
Tomorrow is the happy dayB
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O blessed tidings thought of joyD
The eldest heard with steady gleeE
Silent he stood then laughed amainC
And shouted ' Mother come to me '-
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Louder and louder did he shoutF
With witless hope to bring her nearG
'Nay patience patience little boyD
Your tender mother cannot hear '-
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I told of hills and far off townC
And long long vale to travel throughH
He listens puzzled sore perplexedI
But he submits what can he doH
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No strife disturbs his sister's breastJ
She wars not with the mysteryE
Of time and distance night and dayB
The bonds of our humanityE
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Her joy is like an instinct joyD
Of kitten bird or summer flyK
She dances runs without an aimL
She chatters in her ecstasyE
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Her brother now takes up the noteM
And echoes back his sister's gleeE
They hug the infant in my armsN
As if to force his sympathyE
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Then settling into fond discourseO
We rested in the garden bowerP
While sweetly shone the evening sunC
In his departing hourP
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We told o'er all that we had doneC
Our rambles by the swift brook's sideQ
Far as the willow skirted poolR
Where two fair swans together glideQ
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We talked of change of winter goneC
Of green leaves on the hawthorn sprayB
Of birds that build their nests and singS
And all 'since Mother went away '-
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To her these tales they will repeatT
To her our new born tribes will showU
The goslings green the ass's coltV
The lambs that in the meadow goU
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But see the evening star comes forthW
To bed the children must departX
A moment's heaviness they feelY
A sadness at the heartX
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'Tis gone and in a merry fitZ
They run up stairs in gamesome raceA2
I too infected by their moodB2
I could have joined the wanton chaseA2
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Five minutes past and O the changeC2
Asleep upon their beds they lieK
Their buy limbs in perfect restJ
And closed the sparkling eyeK

William Wordsworth



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