★★★A Prayer for My Daughter ★★★
William Butler Yeats
★★Summary:-----
At first the poet prays for his infant daughter who is sleeping in her cradle,at that time a violent storm blows outside.It makes the poet gloomy, worried for the future of his child. He prays for his daughter.He wants three qualities for his daughter possess when she grows up.He prays to God for usual beauty for his daughter because too much beauty causes havoc.Next quality is courtesy,because courtesy can wins the heart of people and makes a man as calm as a laurel tree.His last wishes to God that his daughter should be without hatred because hatred chokes up the mind.Lastly he prays to God that the bridegroom of his daughter should come of an aristocratic family. Because custom and beauty born only an aristocratic family.
Here storm symbolises "2nd World War". So the poet was afraid of his daughter.
★★Rhyme Scheme:-----
Rhyme scheme is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
★The rhyme scheme of the poem is aabb cddc.
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***To err is human.
-----Written by Krishna Mandal