My Father Played The Melodeon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNFO FANA IPFF AFNFMy 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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