A Father To His Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHIJKLMNOPQOR SBTEUMVWWGPXYPZA2PB2 C2D2E2F2G2H2| A father sees his son nearing manhood | A |
| What shall he tell that son | B |
| 'Life is hard be steel be a rock ' | C |
| And this might stand him for the storms | D |
| and serve him for humdrum monotony | E |
| and guide him among sudden betrayals | F |
| and tighten him for slack moments | G |
| 'Life is a soft loam be gentle go easy ' | C |
| And this too might serve him | H |
| Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed | I |
| The growth of a frail flower in a path up | J |
| has sometimes shattered and split a rock | K |
| A tough will counts So does desire | L |
| So does a rich soft wanting | M |
| Without rich wanting nothing arrives | N |
| Tell him too much money has killed men | O |
| and left them dead years before burial | P |
| the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs | Q |
| has twisted good enough men | O |
| sometimes into dry thwarted worms | R |
| Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted | S |
| Tell him to be a fool every so often | B |
| and to have no shame over having been a fool | T |
| yet learning something out of every folly | E |
| hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies | U |
| thus arriving at intimate understanding | M |
| of a world numbering many fools | V |
| Tell him to be alone often and get at himself | W |
| and above all tell himself no lies about himself | W |
| whatever the white lies and protective fronts | G |
| he may use against other people | P |
| Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong | X |
| and the final decisions are made in silent rooms | Y |
| Tell him to be different from other people | P |
| if it comes natural and easy being different | Z |
| Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives | A2 |
| Let him seek deep for where he is born natural | P |
| Then he may understand Shakespeare | B2 |
| and the Wright brothers Pasteur Pavlov | C2 |
| Michael Faraday and free imaginations | D2 |
| Bringing changes into a world resenting change | E2 |
| He will be lonely enough | F2 |
| to have time for the work | G2 |
| he knows as his own | H2 |
Carl Sandburg
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