My Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE BCFEEEGEGE EHCI HEDJ BEE DKKFE LMDDE| was a truly amazing man | A |
| he pretended to be | B |
| rich | C |
| even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies | D |
| when we sat down to eat he said | E |
| quot not everybody can eat like this quot | E |
| - | |
| and because he wanted to be rich or because he actually | B |
| thought he was rich | C |
| he always voted Republican | F |
| and he voted for Hoover against Roosevelt | E |
| and he lost | E |
| and then he voted for Alf Landon against Roosevelt | E |
| and he lost again | G |
| saying quot I don't know what this world is coming to | E |
| now we've got that god damned Red in there again | G |
| and the Russians will be in our backyard next quot | E |
| - | |
| I think it was my father who made me decide to | E |
| become a bum | H |
| I decided that if a man like that wants to be rich | C |
| then I want to be poor | I |
| - | |
| and I became a bum | H |
| I lived on nickles and dimes and in cheap rooms and | E |
| on park benches | D |
| I thought maybe the bums knew something | J |
| - | |
| but I found out that most of the bums wanted to be | B |
| rich too | E |
| they had just failed at that | E |
| - | |
| so caught between my father and the bums | D |
| I had no place to go | K |
| and I went there fast and slow | K |
| never voted Republican | F |
| never voted | E |
| - | |
| buried him | L |
| like an oddity of the earth | M |
| like a hundred thousand oddities | D |
| like millions of other oddities | D |
| wasted | E |
Charles Bukowski
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