Question

What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from the poem “The Voice” by Thomas Hardy? Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then, Even to the original air-blue gown! Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, Heard no more again far or near? Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling, Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward, And the woman calling. aabb abab abba abca

Answer 1

The rhyme scheme for this poem is ABAB.
You can see it also by looking just at the first four lines (of this excerpt, the poem have one more stanza at the beginning) : then (line 1) and then (line 3) rhyme (they are the same word), and town (line 2) and gown (line4) also rhyme (they have the –own sound).

Answer 2

The ryme in this passage is abab