A Time Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFF GHIJKLMNN NOPQNRSFNTUVWXY| The old wooden steps to the front door | A |
| where I was sitting that fall morning | B |
| when you came downstairs just awake | C |
| and my joy at sight of you emerging | B |
| into golden day | D |
| the dew almost frost | E |
| pulled me to my feet to tell you | F |
| how much I loved you | F |
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| those wooden steps | G |
| are gone now decayed | H |
| replaced with granite | I |
| hard gray and handsome | J |
| The old steps live | K |
| only in me | L |
| my feet and thighs | M |
| remember them and my hands | N |
| still feel their splinters | N |
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| Everything else about and around that house | N |
| brings memories of others of marriage | O |
| of my son And the steps do too I recall | P |
| sitting there with my friend and her little son who died | Q |
| or was it the second one who lives and thrives | N |
| And sitting there in my life often alone or with my husband | R |
| Yet that one instant | S |
| your cheerful unafraid youthful I love you too | F |
| the quiet broken by no bird no cricket gold leaves | N |
| spinning in silence down without | T |
| any breeze to blow them | U |
| is what twines itself | V |
| in my head and body across those slabs of wood | W |
| that were warm ancient and now | X |
| wait somewhere to be burnt | Y |
Denise Levertov
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