L'an Trentiesme De Mon Eage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| And I have come upon this place | A |
| By lost ways by a nod by words | B |
| By faces by an old man's face | A |
| At Morlaix lifted to the birds | B |
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| By hands upon the tablecloth | C |
| At Aldebori's by the thin | D |
| Child's hands that opened to the moth | C |
| And let the flutter of the moonlight in | D |
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| By hands by voices by the voice | E |
| Of Mrs Whitman on the stair | F |
| By Margaret's 'If we had the choice | E |
| To choose or not 'through her thick hair | F |
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| By voices by the creak and fall | G |
| Of footsteps on the upper floor | H |
| By silence waiting in the hall | G |
| Between the doorbell and the door | H |
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| By words by voices a lost way | I |
| And here above the chimney stack | J |
| The unknown constellations sway | I |
| And by what way shall I go back | J |
Archibald Macleish
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