Home After Three Months Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGH IJJKKLJJMNNJOOPPQL RSRSSEEESES ST| Gone now the baby's nurse | A |
| a lioness who ruled the roost | B |
| and made the Mother cry | C |
| She used to tie | C |
| gobbets of porkrind in bowknots of gauze | D |
| three months they hung like soggy toast | E |
| on our eight foot magnolia tree | F |
| and helped the English sparrows | G |
| weather a Boston winter | H |
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| Three months three months | I |
| Is Richard now himself again | J |
| Dimpled with exaltation | J |
| my daughter holds her levee in the tub | K |
| Our noses rub | K |
| each of us pats a stringy lock of hair | L |
| they tell me nothing's gone | J |
| Though I am forty one | J |
| not forty now the time I put away | M |
| was child's play After thirteen weeks | N |
| my child still dabs her cheeks | N |
| to start me shaving When | J |
| we dress her in her sky blue corduroy | O |
| she changes to a boy | O |
| and floats my shaving brush | P |
| and washcloth in the flush | P |
| Dearest I cannot loiter here | Q |
| in lather like a polar bear | L |
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| Recuperating I neither spin nor toil | R |
| Three stories down below | S |
| a choreman tends our coffin's length of soil | R |
| and seven horizontal tulips blow | S |
| Just twelve months ago | S |
| these flowers were pedigreed | E |
| imported Dutchmen now no one need | E |
| distinguish them from weed | E |
| Bushed by the late spring snow | S |
| they cannot meet | E |
| another year's snowballing enervation | S |
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| I keep no rank nor station | S |
| Cured I am frizzled stale and small | T |
Robert Lowell
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