The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHHIJFK HH| So Abram rose and clave the wood and went | A |
| And took the fire with him and a knife | B |
| And as they sojourned both of them together | C |
| Isaac the first born spake and said My Father | C |
| Behold the preparations fire and iron | D |
| But where the lamb for this burnt offering | E |
| Then Abram bound the youth with belts and strops | F |
| And builded parapets and trenches there | G |
| And stretched forth the knife to slay his son | H |
| When lo an angel called him out of heaven | H |
| Saying Lay not thy hand upon the lad | I |
| Neither do anything to him Behold | J |
| A ram caught in a thicket by its horns | F |
| Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him | K |
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| But the old man would not so but slew his son | H |
| And half the seed of Europe one by one | H |
Wilfred Owen
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