What Did It Mean? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FCCFG HDHD IIJJH| What did it mean that noontide when | A |
| You bade me pluck the flower | B |
| Within the other woman's bower | B |
| Whom I knew nought of then | A |
| - | |
| I thought the flower blushed deeplier aye | C |
| And as I drew its stalk to me | D |
| It seemed to breathe I am I see | D |
| Made use of in a human play | E |
| - | |
| And while I plucked upstarted sheer | F |
| As phantom from the pane thereby | C |
| A corpse like countenance with eye | C |
| That iced me by its baleful peer | F |
| Silent as from a bier | G |
| - | |
| When I came back your face had changed | H |
| It was no face for me | D |
| O did it speak of hearts estranged | H |
| And deadly rivalry | D |
| - | |
| In times before | I |
| I darked your door | I |
| To seise me of | J |
| Mere second love | J |
| Which still the haunting first deranged | H |
Thomas Hardy
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