Neutral Tones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIH| WE stood by a pond that winter day | A |
| And the sun was white as though chidden of God | B |
| And a few leaves lay on the starving sod | B |
| They had fallen from an ash and were gray | A |
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| Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove | C |
| Over tedious riddles solved years ago | D |
| And some words played between us to and fro | D |
| On which lost the more by our love | E |
| - | |
| The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing | F |
| Alive enough to have strength to die | G |
| And a grin of bitterness swept thereby | G |
| Like an ominous bird a wing | F |
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| Since then keen lessons that love deceives | H |
| And wrings with wrong have shaped to me | I |
| Your face and the God curst sun and a tree | I |
| And a pond edged with grayish leaves | H |
Thomas Hardy
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