To An Actress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEAEA| I read your name when you were strange to me | A |
| Where it stood blazoned bold with many more | B |
| I passed it vacantly and did not see | A |
| Any great glory in the shape it wore | B |
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| O cruelty the insight barred me then | C |
| Why did I not possess me with its sound | D |
| And in its cadence catch and catch again | C |
| Your nature's essence floating therearound | D |
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| Could THAT man be this I unknowing you | E |
| When now the knowing you is all of me | A |
| And the old world of then is now a new | E |
| And purpose no more what it used to be | A |
| A thing of formal journeywork but due | E |
| To springs that then were sealed up utterly | A |
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Thomas Hardy
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