The Old Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGHI HJKLJ MFNOF PLQRS TUDVW XLLYZ A2B2C2C2D2 E2DF2QG2| My old flame my wife | A |
| Remember our lists of birds | B |
| One morning last summer I drove | C |
| by our house in Maine It was still | D |
| on top of its hill | D |
| - | |
| Now a red ear of Indian maize | E |
| was splashed on the door | F |
| Old Glory with thirteen stripes | G |
| hung on a pole The clapboard | H |
| was old red schoolhouse red | I |
| - | |
| Inside a new landlord | H |
| a new wife a new broom | J |
| Atlantic seaboard antique shop | K |
| pewter and plunder | L |
| shone in each room | J |
| - | |
| A new frontier | M |
| No running next door | F |
| now to phone the sheriff | N |
| for his taxi to Bath | O |
| and the State Liquor Store | F |
| - | |
| No one saw your ghostly | P |
| imaginary lover | L |
| stare through the window | Q |
| and tighten | R |
| the scarf at his throat | S |
| - | |
| Health to the new people | T |
| health to their flag to their old | U |
| restored house on the hill | D |
| Everything had been swept bare | V |
| furnished garnished and aired | W |
| - | |
| Everything's changed for the best | X |
| how quivering and fierce we were | L |
| there snowbound together | L |
| simmering like wasps | Y |
| in our tent of books | Z |
| - | |
| Poor ghost old love speak | A2 |
| with your old voice | B2 |
| of flaming insight | C2 |
| that kept us awake all night | C2 |
| In one bed and apart | D2 |
| - | |
| we heard the plow | E2 |
| groaning up hill | D |
| a red light then a blue | F2 |
| as it tossed off the snow | Q |
| to the side of the road | G2 |
Robert Lowell
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