Discuss the structure of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Mother."

Gwendolyn Brooks is a highly accomplished poet, and her
poem "The Mother" reflects her ability to work with language on a number of levels. The
poem uses a variety of elements to give it structure, but it doesn't seem bound to any
one of these elements.

End rhyme is used throughout, for
example, and while the poem's rhyme often follows the format of couplets (AA, BB, etc.),
it occasionally breaks out of that pattern and sometimes uses alternating rhyme (ABAB,
etc.).

End rhyme is, of course, the repetition of sounds at
the end of lines of a poem. Repetition is used in other ways, too, to lend structure to
the poem. Key words and phrases are repeated or closely imitated, such as in the
parallel grammatical forms in lines 3-4:

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The damp small pulps with a little or with no
hair, The singers and workers that never handled the
air.

The source cited below,
at , talks about how the speaker in the poem is vacillating between various ways of
making sense of the abortion or lost child:

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An important unifying device in the poem is
memory. Memory is constantly functioning in “the mother.” The narrator is in a fluid and
changing relationship with the past, and specifically with her decisions that have
drastically affected the
present.

It may be possible
to connect the changes in the poem's very structure to the changes in the speaker's
"changing relationship with the past."

NOTE: I didn't
understand the question in its original form. There's really no such thing as
"structuralism in" a specific poem. Structuralism is a theoretical approach that
transcends individual pieces of literature and looks for large patterns that organize
and explain the individual pieces. In your question, I thus changed "structuralism in"
to "structure of."