The Kine Of My Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED AFAF GHAH IJAJ ABEB| The kine of my rather they are straying from my keeping | A |
| The young goat's at mischief but little can I do | B |
| For all through the night did I hear the Banshee keening | A |
| O youth of my loving and is it well with you | B |
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| All through the night sat my mother with my sorrow | C |
| Whisht it is the wind O one childeen of my heart | D |
| My hair with the wind and my two hands clasped in anguish | E |
| Black head of my darling too long are we apart | D |
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| Were your grave at my feet I would think it half a blessing | A |
| I could herd then the cattle and drive the goats away | F |
| Many a Paternoster I would say for your safe keeping | A |
| I could sleep above your heart until the dawn of day | F |
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| I see you on the prairie hot with thirst and faint with hunger | G |
| The head that I love lying low upon the sand | H |
| The vultures shriek impatient and the coyote dogs are howling | A |
| Till the blood is pulsing cold within your clenching hand | H |
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| I see you on the waters so white so still forlorn | I |
| Your dear eyes unclosing beneath a foreign rain | J |
| A plaything of the winds you turn and drift unceasing | A |
| No grave for your resting O mine the bitter pain | J |
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| All through the night did I hear the Banshee keening | A |
| Somewhere you are dying and nothing can I do | B |
| My hair with the wind and my two hands clasped in anguish | E |
| Bitter is your trouble and I am far from you | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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