The Opportunity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG| Forty springs back I recall | A |
| We met at this phase of the Maytime | B |
| We might have clung close through all | A |
| But we parted when died that daytime | B |
| - | |
| We parted with smallest regret | C |
| Perhaps should have cared but slightly | D |
| Just then if we never had met | C |
| Strange strange that we lived so lightly | D |
| - | |
| Had we mused a little space | E |
| At that critical date in the Maytime | B |
| One life had been ours one place | E |
| Perhaps till our long cold daytime | B |
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| This is a bitter thing | F |
| For thee O man what ails it | G |
| The tide of chance may bring | F |
| Its offer but nought avails it | G |
Thomas Hardy
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