Old Greek Lovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHIJDKLMANMOP Q M| They put wild olive and acanthus up | A |
| With tufts of yellow wool above the door | B |
| When a man died in Greece and in Greek Islands | C |
| Grey stone by the blue sea | D |
| Or sage green trees down to the water's edge | E |
| How many clanging years ago | F |
| I also withering into death sat with him | G |
| Old man of so white hair who only | D |
| Only looked past me into the red fire | H |
| At last his words were all a jumble of plum trees | I |
| And white boys smelling of the sea's green wine | J |
| And practice of his lyre Suddenly | D |
| The bleak resurgent mind | K |
| Called wonderfully clear What mark have I left | L |
| Crying girls with wine and linen | M |
| Washed the straight old body and wrapped up | A |
| And set the doorward feet | N |
| Later for me also under Greek sun | M |
| The pendant leaves in green and bitter flakes | O |
| Blew out to join the wastage of the world | P |
| And wool I take it in the nests of birds | Q |
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| From the Arabic of John Duncan | M |
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