To My Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBCDBEFFEEF A GHHGGHHGIJJIIJ F K| I | A |
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| Take of the first fruits Father of thy care | B |
| Wrapped in the fresh leaves of my gratitude | C |
| Late waked for early gifts ill understood | D |
| Claiming in all my harvests rightful share | B |
| Whether with song that mounts the joyful air | B |
| I praise my God or in yet deeper mood | C |
| Sit dumb because I know a speechless good | D |
| Needing no voice but all the soul for prayer | B |
| Thou hast been faithful to my highest need | E |
| And I thy debtor ever evermore | F |
| Shall never feel the grateful burden sore | F |
| Yet most I thank thee not for any deed | E |
| But for the sense thy living self did breed | E |
| That fatherhood is at the great world's core | F |
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| II | A |
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| All childhood reverence clothed thee undefined | G |
| As for some being of another race | H |
| Ah not with it departing grown apace | H |
| As years have brought me manhood's loftier mind | G |
| Able to see thy human life behind | G |
| The same hid heart the same revealing face | H |
| My own dim contest settling into grace | H |
| Of sorrow strife and victory combined | G |
| So I beheld my God in childhood's morn | I |
| A mist a darkness great and far apart | J |
| Moveless and dim I scarce could say Thou art | J |
| My manhood came of joy and sadness born | I |
| Full soon the misty dark asunder torn | I |
| Revealed man's glory God's great human heart | J |
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| G M D Jr | F |
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| Algiers April | K |
George Macdonald
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