A Prayer For My Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEGHIIH JKJKLMML NMNOPHHQ| Bid 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 |
| - | |
| 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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