A Prayer For My Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEGHIIH JKJKLMML NMNOPHHQ

Bid a strong ghost stand at the headA
That my Michael may sleep soundB
Nor cry nor turn in the bedA
Till his morning meal come roundB
And may departing twilight keepC
All dread afar till morning's backD
That his mother may not lackD
Her fill of sleepC
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Bid the ghost have sword in fistE
Some there are for I avowF
Such devilish things existE
Who have planned his murder for they knowG
Of some most haughty deed or thoughtH
That waits upon his future daysI
And would through hatred of the baysI
Bring that to noughtH
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Though You can fashion everythingJ
From nothing every day and teachK
The morning stars to singJ
You have lacked articulate speechK
To tell Your simplest want and knownL
Wailing upon a woman's kneeM
All of that worst ignominyM
Of flesh and boneL
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And when through all the town there ranN
The servants of Your enemyM
A woman and a manN
Unless the Holy Writings lieO
Hurried through the smooth and roughP
And through the fertile and wasteH
protecting till the danger pastH
With human loveQ

William Butler Yeats



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