My Father Played The Melodeon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNFO FANA IPFF AFNF| My father played the melodeon | A |
| Outside at our gate | B |
| There were stars in the morning east | C |
| And they danced to his music | D |
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| Across the world bogs his melodeon called | E |
| To Lennons and Callans | F |
| As I pulled on my trousers in a hurry | G |
| I knew some strange thing had happened | H |
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| Outside in the cow house my mother | I |
| Made the music of milking | J |
| The light of the stable lamp was a star | K |
| And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle | L |
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| A water hen screeched in the bog | M |
| Mass going feet | N |
| Crunched the wafer ice on the polt holes | F |
| Somebody wistfully twisted a bellow's wheel | O |
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| My child poet picked out the letters | F |
| On Time's black stone | A |
| In silver the wonder of a Christmas townland | N |
| The winking glitter of a frosty dawn | A |
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| Cassiopea was over | I |
| Cassidy's hanging hill | P |
| I looked and three whin bushes rode acoss | F |
| The horizon the Three Wise Kings | F |
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| My father played the melodeon | A |
| My mother milked the cows | F |
| And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned | N |
| On the Virgin Mary's blouse | F |
Patrick Kavanagh
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