Being a slow producer of poems, I have some particular difficulties when trying to 'force' a number loose, as I am at the moment. I am used to composing for a long time (weeks, months) in my head, before I start drafting on the page, by which point the language, content and phrasing is usually set and fairly well-honed. The drafting mainly takes care of technical matters - sequencing, linebreaks and so on.

But here, I am forcing myself to start writing once I have a couple of lines. The trouble is,'a couple of lines' is a 'line pair' - that is, I know they belong together, and represent either an opening, a close, or a volta in a poem, such is my (possibly Asperger-y) method of making poems - and I am unused to entering the drafting process with no idea where the pair belongs, or what will surround it. So I currently have half-a-dozen part-drafts in which the line pairs which founded the poem move like yo-yos from the top to the bottom to the middle of the poem.

Does the following pair sound like an opening, a volta or a close, for example?

When next you pass through beeches, think:
These are old lovers; this how I left them.

I have no idea.