Unfinished History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLNOLPQM Q| WE HAVE loved each other in this time twenty years | A |
| And with such love as few men have in them even for | B |
| One or for the marriage month or the hearing of | C |
| Three nights' carts in the street but it will leave them | D |
| We have been lovers the twentieth year now | E |
| Our bed has been made in many houses and evenings | F |
| The apple tree moves at the window in this house | G |
| There were palms rattled the night through in one | H |
| In one there were red tiles and the sea's hours | I |
| We have made our bed in the changes of many months and the | J |
| Light of the day is still overlong in the windows | K |
| Till night shall bring us the lamp and one another | L |
| Those that have seen her have no thought what she is | M |
| Her face is clear in the sun as a palmful of water | L |
| Only by night and in love are the dark winds on it | N |
| I wrote this poem that day when I thought | O |
| Since we have loved we two so long together | L |
| Shall we have done together all love gone | P |
| Or how then will it change with us when the breath | Q |
| Is no more able for such joy and the blood is | M |
| Thin in the throat and the time not come for death | Q |
Archibald Macleish
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