A Prayer For My Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEGHIIH JKJKLMML NMNOPHHQBid a strong ghost stand at the head | A |
That my Michael may sleep sound | B |
Nor cry nor turn in the bed | A |
Till his morning meal come round | B |
And may departing twilight keep | C |
All dread afar till morning's back | D |
That his mother may not lack | D |
Her fill of sleep | C |
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Bid the ghost have sword in fist | E |
Some there are for I avow | F |
Such devilish things exist | E |
Who have planned his murder for they know | G |
Of some most haughty deed or thought | H |
That waits upon his future days | I |
And would through hatred of the bays | I |
Bring that to nought | H |
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Though You can fashion everything | J |
From nothing every day and teach | K |
The morning stars to sing | J |
You have lacked articulate speech | K |
To tell Your simplest want and known | L |
Wailing upon a woman's knee | M |
All of that worst ignominy | M |
Of flesh and bone | L |
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And when through all the town there ran | N |
The servants of Your enemy | M |
A woman and a man | N |
Unless the Holy Writings lie | O |
Hurried through the smooth and rough | P |
And through the fertile and waste | H |
protecting till the danger past | H |
With human love | Q |
William Butler Yeats
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