Unfinished History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLNOLPQM Q

WE HAVE loved each other in this time twenty yearsA
And with such love as few men have in them even forB
One or for the marriage month or the hearing ofC
Three nights' carts in the street but it will leave themD
We have been lovers the twentieth year nowE
Our bed has been made in many houses and eveningsF
The apple tree moves at the window in this houseG
There were palms rattled the night through in oneH
In one there were red tiles and the sea's hoursI
We have made our bed in the changes of many months and theJ
Light of the day is still overlong in the windowsK
Till night shall bring us the lamp and one anotherL
Those that have seen her have no thought what she isM
Her face is clear in the sun as a palmful of waterL
Only by night and in love are the dark winds on itN
I wrote this poem that day when I thoughtO
Since we have loved we two so long togetherL
Shall we have done together all love goneP
Or how then will it change with us when the breathQ
Is no more able for such joy and the blood isM
Thin in the throat and the time not come for deathQ

Archibald Macleish



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