Special Gift Poem

In my holy book the Quran there is a section where a prophet asks god who is most important in life. God says mom is first, he says mom second, he says mom third and finally on the fourth time he says dad. Moms are so important that god says they come first three times before father's. In the poem I chose “Mothers Are A Special Gift” it compares mothers to gifts from god and I for one wholeheartedly agree.
This poem incorporates so many different techniques in four stanzas, that made the experience of reading it all the more enjoyable. In “Mothers Are A Special Gift,” it uses both simple and complex vocabulary. I enjoyed that, because if you fill up four stanzas with with words that many people probably don’t know it becomes too much to comprehend. It’s like a dictionary spewing out words at random. Nevertheless with the use of words like nurturing, but balancing it out with words like sad makes the perfect combination. There also isn’t a strict rhyming scheme. So it isn’t just ABAB it changes with each stanza. I normally don't like poems without rhyming, but if you rhyme every word it overpowers the main theme of what you’re reading.
In class we talked about what a foil is and in stanza there is a clear example of a foil. It says “a mother’s love’s more precious than the rarest gem or gold.” It compares it to a direct opposite. This poem is being in third person point of view, because of the use of “they” in the poem which is one of the main indicators out of many others. On the other hand the first figurative language I noticed was actually the title. When it says “Mothers Are a Special Gift” is a metaphor, because it states are a gift. It also uses repetition to add a effect of importance. So the reader knows the line “Mothers Are a Special Gift,” because it is repeated in stanzas one, three and