Do You Not Father Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEG HIJIKIII LMNOPQRS TTTTUIVI| Do you not father me nor the erected arm | A |
| For my tall tower's sake cast in her stone | B |
| Do you not mother me nor as I am | C |
| The lovers' house lie suffering my stain | D |
| Do you not sister me nor the erected crime | E |
| For my tall turrets carry as your sin | F |
| Do you not brother me nor as you climb | E |
| Adore my windows for their summer scene | G |
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| Am I not father too and the ascending boy | H |
| The boy of woman and the wanton starer | I |
| Marking the flesh and summer in the bay | J |
| Am I not sister too who is my saviour | I |
| Am I not all of you by the directed sea | K |
| Where bird and shell are babbling in my tower | I |
| Am I not you who front the tidy shore | I |
| Nor roof of sand nor yet the towering tiler | I |
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| You are all these said she who gave me the long suck | L |
| All these he said who sacked the children's town | M |
| Up rose the Abraham man mad for my sake | N |
| They said who hacked and humoured they were mine | O |
| I am the tower told felled by a timeless stroke | P |
| Who razed my wooden folly stands aghast | Q |
| For man begetters in the dry as paste | R |
| The ringed sea ghost rise grimly from the wrack | S |
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| Do you not father me on the destroying sand | T |
| You are your sisters' sire said seaweedy | T |
| The salt sucked dam and darlings of the land | T |
| Who play the proper gentleman and lady | T |
| Shall I still be love's house on the widdershin earth | U |
| Woe to the windy masons at my shelter | I |
| Love's house they answer and the tower death | V |
| Lie all unknowing of the grave sin eater | I |
Dylan Thomas
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