A crystal staircase is not an item that many have. This can be used literally, as in not many people have a crystal staircase in possession, or the phrase can be used metaphorically, as in not many have a clean, smooth, shiny, and easy life. In the poem written by Langston Hughes, “Mother to Son”, a woman is telling her child to never give up in life and to keep pushing on. The poem does not have any rhyme scheme because the mother is talking to her son genuinely. When a person is speaking in a normal tone and about a normal topic, it is uncommon for that person to rhyme each end of a sentence with the last. The poem has twenty lines and does not have any stanzas. “Mother to Son” is a poem that shows that a mother loves her so and wants the
