The Telephone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCABDE BFAGHB| 'When I was just as far as I could walk | A |
| From here today | B |
| There was an hour | C |
| All still | D |
| When leaning with my head again a flower | C |
| I heard you talk | A |
| Don't say I didn't for I heard you say | B |
| You spoke from that flower on the window sill | D |
| Do you remember what it was you said ' | E |
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| 'First tell me what it was you thought you heard ' | - |
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| 'Having found the flower and driven a bee away | B |
| I leaned on my head | F |
| And holding by the stalk | A |
| I listened and I thought I caught the word | G |
| What was it Did you call me by my name | H |
| Or did you say | B |
| Someone said Come I heard it as I bowed ' | - |
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| 'I may have thought as much but not aloud ' | - |
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| Well so I came ' | - |
Robert Frost
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