What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem (the / indicates the end of the
line);
oh mother, mother, where is happiness? /
they took my lover's tallness off to war,
left me lamenting. now i cannot guess/
what i can use an empty heart-cup for./
he won't be coming back here any more./
some day the war will end, but, oh, i knew/
when he went walking grandly out that door/
that my sweet love would have to be untrue./
would have to be untrue. would have to court/
coquettish death, whose impudent and strange/
possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)/
can make a hard man hesitate--and change.
and he will be the one to stammer. "yes.
oh mother mother, where is happiness?

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Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?