Feel Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHIDJ KLMNKLOP PQRSTDUVWHXML DL| Feel me to do right our father said on his deathbed | A |
| We did not quite know in fact not at all what he meant | B |
| His last whisper was spent as through a slot in a wall | C |
| He left us a key but how did it fit Feel me | D |
| to do right Did it mean that though he died he would be felt | E |
| through some aperture or by some unseen instrument | F |
| our dad just then had come to know So to do right always | G |
| we need but feel his spirit Or was it merely his apology | D |
| for dying Feel that I do right in not trying | H |
| as you insist to stay on your side There is the wide | I |
| gateway and the splendid tower and you implore me | D |
| to wait here with the worms | J |
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| Had he defined his terms and could we discriminate | K |
| among his motives we might have found out how to do right | L |
| before we died supposing he felt he suddenly knew | M |
| what dying was You do wrong because you do not feel | N |
| as I do now was maybe the sense Feel me and emulate | K |
| my state for I am becoming less dense I am feeling right | L |
| for the first time And then the vessel burst | O |
| and we were kneeling around an emptiness | P |
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| We cannot feel our father now His power courses through us | P |
| yes but he the chest and cheek the foot and palm | Q |
| the mouth of oracle is calm And we still seek | R |
| his meaning Feel me he said and emphasized that word | S |
| Should we have heard it as a plea for a caress | T |
| a constant caress since flesh to flesh was all that we | D |
| could do right if we would bless him | U |
| The dying must feel the pressure of that question | V |
| lying flat turning cold from brow to heel the hot | W |
| cowards there above protesting their love and saying | H |
| What can we do Are you all right While the wall opens | X |
| and the blue night pours through What can we do | M |
| We want to do what s right | L |
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| Lie down with me and hold me tight Touch me Be | D |
| with me Feel with me Feel me to do right | L |
May Swenson
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