MY FATHERS SONG

What is the rhyme scheme?
Free verse
End rhyme lines 11-12 "sand, hand."

WHAT ARE THE POETIC ELEMENTS?

• Alliteration: "Told, touch, them." (Line 20)
• Allusion: Stanza 2 refers to a tribe.
• Repetition: Talks about the sand repeatedly (Stanzas 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Personification: "Tremble of emotion." (Line 5)
• Imagery: "Tiny pink animals." (Line 18)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

• The father and son were close
• They spent a lot of time together
• The son is sad about his father being dead
• The son remembers all the happy times they had
• (Planting together and finding mice in a fired were they worked and saving them)