The Fathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBECFFGE HIJKHJGLMGNGM OPPOOQJQRRJ| Our fathers all were poor | A |
| Poorer our fathers' fathers | B |
| Beyond we dare not look | C |
| We the sons keep store | D |
| Of tarnished gold that gathers | B |
| Around us from the night | E |
| Record it in this book | C |
| That when the line is drawn | F |
| Credit and creditor gone | F |
| Column and figure flown | G |
| Will open into light | E |
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| Archaic fevers shake | H |
| Our healthy flesh and blood | I |
| Plumped in the passing day | J |
| And fed with pleasant food | K |
| The fathers' anger and ache | H |
| Will not will not away | J |
| And leave the living alone | G |
| But on our careless brows | L |
| Faintly their furrows engrave | M |
| Like veinings in a stone | G |
| Breathe in the sunny house | N |
| Nightmare of blackened bone | G |
| Cellar and choking cave | M |
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| Panics and furies fly | O |
| Through our unhurried veins | P |
| Heavenly lights and rains | P |
| Purify heart and eye | O |
| Past agonies purify | O |
| And lay the sullen dust | Q |
| The angers will not away | J |
| We hold our fathers' trust | Q |
| Wrong riches sorrow and all | R |
| Until they topple and fall | R |
| And fallen let in the day | J |
Edwin Muir
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