Man And Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEEFGGHDIHJKDDHJ IK LMNOPA| Tamed by Miltown we lie on Mother's bed | A |
| the rising sun in war paint dyes us red | A |
| in broad daylight her gilded bed posts shine | B |
| abandoned almost Dionysian | C |
| At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street | D |
| blossoms on our magnolia ignite | E |
| the morning with their murderous five day's white | E |
| All night I've held your hand | F |
| as if you had | G |
| a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad | G |
| its hackneyed speech its homicidal eye | H |
| and dragged me home alive Oh my Petite | D |
| clearest of all God's creatures still all air and nerve | I |
| you were in your twenties and I | H |
| once hand on glass | J |
| and heart in mouth | K |
| outdrank the Rahvs in the heat | D |
| of Greenwich Village fainting at your feet | D |
| too boiled and shy | H |
| and poker faced to make a pass | J |
| while the shrill verve | I |
| of your invective scorched the traditional South | K |
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| Now twelve years later you turn your back | L |
| Sleepless you hold | M |
| your pillow to your hollows like a child | N |
| your old fashioned tirade | O |
| loving rapid merciless | P |
| breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head | A |
Robert Lowell
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