To Meet, Or Otherwise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABBCDCDCDDDDDDDD DDEDEDEE| Whether to sally and see thee girl of my dreams | A |
| Or whether to stay | B |
| And see thee not How vast the difference seems | A |
| Of Yea from Nay | B |
| Just now Yet this same sun will slant its beams | A |
| At no far day | B |
| On our two mounds and then what will the difference weigh | B |
| Yet I will see thee maiden dear and make | C |
| The most I can | D |
| Of what remains to us amid this brake | C |
| Cimmerian | D |
| Through which we grope and from whose thorns we ache | C |
| While still we scan | D |
| Round our frail faltering progress for some path or plan | D |
| By briefest meeting something sure is won | D |
| It will have been | D |
| Nor God nor Daemon can undo the done | D |
| Unsight the seen | D |
| Make muted music be as unbegun | D |
| Though things terrene | D |
| Groan in their bondage till oblivion supervene | D |
| So to the one long sweeping symphony | D |
| From times remote | E |
| Till now of human tenderness shall we | D |
| Supply one note | E |
| Small and untraced yet that will ever be | D |
| Somewhere afloat | E |
| Amid the spheres as part of sick Life's antidote | E |
Thomas Hardy
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