A Father's Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH AIIAAJ KKLLMMNN OPDDEEQQ RRSSDDJJ| Because I am his father they | A |
| Expect me to put grief away | A |
| Because I am a man and rough | B |
| And sometimes short of speech and gruff | B |
| The women folks at home believe | C |
| His absence doesn't make me grieve | C |
| But how I felt they little know | D |
| The day I smiled and let him go | D |
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| They little know the dreams I had | E |
| Long cherished for my sturdy lad | E |
| They little guess the wrench it meant | F |
| That day when off to war he went | F |
| They little know the tears I checked | G |
| While standing smiling and erect | G |
| They never heard my smothered sigh | H |
| When it was time to say good bye | H |
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| 'What does his father think and say ' | - |
| The neighbors ask from day to day | A |
| 'Oh he's a man ' they answer then | I |
| 'And you know how it is with men | I |
| But little do they ever say | A |
| They do not feel the self same way | A |
| He seems indifferent and grim | J |
| And yet he's very proud of him ' | - |
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| Indifferent and grim Oh heart | K |
| Be brave enough to play the part | K |
| Let not the grief in you be shown | L |
| Keep all your loneliness unknown | L |
| To you the women folks must turn | M |
| For comfort when their sorrows burn | M |
| You must not at this time reveal | N |
| The pain and anguish that you feel | N |
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| Oh tongue be silent through the years | O |
| And eyes keep back always the tears | P |
| And let them never see or know | D |
| My hidden weight of grief and woe | D |
| Though every golden dream I had | E |
| Was centered in my little lad | E |
| Alone my sorrow I must bear | Q |
| They must not know how much I care | Q |
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| Though women folks may talk and weep | R |
| A man unseen his grief must keep | R |
| And hide behind his smile and pride | S |
| The loneliness that dwells inside | S |
| And so from day to day I go | D |
| Playing the part of man although | D |
| Beneath the rough outside and grim | J |
| I think and dream and pray for him | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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