Memory Of My Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF FHFH ABABEvery old man I see | A |
Reminds me of my father | B |
When he had fallen in love with death | C |
One time when sheaves were gathered | D |
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That man I saw in Gardner Street | E |
Stumbled on the kerb was one | F |
He stared at me half eyed | G |
I might have been his son | F |
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And I remember the musician | F |
Faltering over his fiddle | H |
In Bayswater London | F |
He too set me the riddle | H |
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Every old man I see | A |
In October coloured weather | B |
Seems to say to me | A |
I was once your father | B |
Patrick Kavanagh
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