The Minute Before Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFFE| The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain | A |
| Seemed hopeless hills my strength must faint to climb | B |
| But they are gone and now I would detain | A |
| The few clock beats that part us rein back Time | B |
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| And live in close expectance never closed | C |
| In change for far expectance closed at last | D |
| So harshly has expectance been imposed | C |
| On my long need while these slow blank months passed | D |
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| And knowing that what is now about to be | E |
| Will all HAVE BEEN in O so short a space | F |
| I read beyond it my despondency | E |
| When more dividing months shall take its place | F |
| Thereby denying to this hour of grace | F |
| A full up measure of felicity | E |
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Thomas Hardy
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