Lyric Poem · For Kids
To My Mother
You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.
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“To My Mother” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/to-my-mother-stevenson
Quick facts
- Poem
- To My Mother
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Love, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABB — couplets.
- Line length
- Long metre. Four eight-syllable lines (8.8.8.8), the hymn stanza's longer cousin.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Full-text display is based on the committed source record and a United States term-expiry review.
- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo My Mother by robert-louis-stevenson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 864e3f80611a4475…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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