The Children Look At The Parents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEFB GHIJ KLMI NCOP QRST O| We being so hidden from those who | A |
| Have quietly borne and fed us | B |
| How can we answer civilly | C |
| Their innocent invitations | D |
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| How can we say we see you | A |
| As but for God's grace ourselves as | E |
| Our caricatures we yours with | F |
| Time's telescope between us | B |
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| How can we say you presumed on | G |
| The accident of kinship | H |
| Assumed our friendship coatlike | I |
| Not as a badge one fights for | J |
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| How say and you remembered | K |
| The sins of our outlived selves and | L |
| Your own forgiveness buried | M |
| The hatchet to slow music | I |
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| Shared money but not your secrets | N |
| Will leave as your final legacy | C |
| A box double locked by the spider | O |
| Packed with your unsolved problems | P |
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| How say all this without capitals | Q |
| Italics anger or pathos | R |
| To those who have seen from the womb come | S |
| Enemies How not say it | T |
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| Submitted by Stephen Fryer | O |
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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