 Studying follow-up by Sheamus Haney, here's how you can analyse this poem. The poem is written in six stanzas which are quatrains. Quatrains means it's a one, two, three, four line stanza. The poem opens by focusing on his father and this noun shows that the speaker admired. Also this simile shows how strong his father was. The caesura after an expert emphasises his father's power on the farm. The speaker uses the words rain, land and furrow which belong to the semantic field of farming showing that he grew up on the farm watching his father. The verb stumbled as well as the litteration of H here shows that the speaker when he was a child felt inadequate in his father's shadow. This declarative sentence shows that the speaker really wanted to be like his dad when he grew up. The enjong one after follow refers back to the title showing the speaker looked up to his father. Also the rule of three here shows how weak he was as a child. By the end of the poem the roles are reversed. The father is now old weak and he follows the son around.