Yesterday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CCC DEFF GG GHIJI KLM NIIKI K OPPQ R GIRRP CSCTC CP| My friend says I was not a good son | A |
| you understand | B |
| I say yes I understand | B |
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| he says I did not go | C |
| to see my parents very often you know | C |
| and I say yes I know | C |
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| even when I was living in the same city he says | D |
| maybe I would go there once | E |
| a month or maybe even less | F |
| I say oh yes | F |
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| he says the last time I went to see my father | G |
| I say the last time I saw my father | G |
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| he says the last time I saw my father | G |
| he was asking me about my life | H |
| how I was making out and he | I |
| went into the next room | J |
| to get something to give me | I |
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| oh I say | K |
| feeling again the cold | L |
| of my father's hand the last time | M |
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| he says and my father turned | N |
| in the doorway and saw me | I |
| look at my wristwatch and he | I |
| said you know I would like you to stay | K |
| and talk with me | I |
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| oh yes I say | K |
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| but if you are busy he said | O |
| I don't want you to feel that you | P |
| have to | P |
| just because I'm here | Q |
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| I say nothing | R |
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| he says my father | G |
| said maybe | I |
| you have important work you are doing | R |
| or maybe you should be seeing | R |
| somebody I don't want to keep you | P |
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| I look out the window | C |
| my friend is older than I am | S |
| he says and I told my father it was so | C |
| and I got up and left him then | T |
| you know | C |
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| though there was nowhere I had to go | C |
| and nothing I had to do | P |
William Stanley Merwin
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