The Old Flame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGHI HJKLJ MFNOF PLQRS TUDVW XLLYZ A2B2C2C2D2 E2DF2QG2My 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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No one saw your ghostly | P |
imaginary lover | L |
stare through the window | Q |
and tighten | R |
the scarf at his throat | S |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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