Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBD E EFFG HIHJJIK CLCAAL MNMOONN| He never made a fortune or a noise | A |
| In the world where men are seeking after fame | B |
| But he had a healthy brood of girls and boys | A |
| Who loved the very ground on which he trod | C |
| They thought him just a little short of God | C |
| Oh you should have heard the way they said his name | B |
| 'Father ' | D |
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| There seemed to be a loving little prayer | E |
| In their voices even when they called him 'Dad ' | - |
| Though the man was never heard of anywhere | E |
| As a hero yet you somehow understood | F |
| He was doing well his part and making good | F |
| And you knew it by the way his children had | G |
| Of saying 'Father ' | - |
| - | |
| He gave them neither eminence nor wealth | H |
| But he gave them blood untainted with a vice | I |
| And the opulence of undiluted health | H |
| He was honest and unpurchable and kind | J |
| He was clean in heart and body and in mind | J |
| So he made them heirs to riches without price | I |
| This father | K |
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| He never preached or scolded and the rod | C |
| Well he used it as a turning pole in play | L |
| But he showed the tender sympathy of God | C |
| To his children in their troubles and their joys | A |
| He was always chum and comrade with his boys | A |
| And his daughters oh you ought to hear them say | L |
| 'Father ' | - |
| - | |
| Now I think of all achievements 'tis the least | M |
| To perpetuate the species it is done | N |
| By the insect and the serpent and the beast | M |
| But the man who keeps his body and his thought | O |
| WORTH bestowing on an offspring love begot | O |
| Then the highest earthly glory he has won | N |
| When in pride a grown up daughter or a son | N |
| Says 'That's Father ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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