Across
- 6. Without thought or planning
- 8. Looking back with regret
- 11. The form of sonnets and the theme of unrequited love is suggested by this meter. This meter is also broken into two lines, suggested broken hearts.
- 12. The speaker of the poem
- 16. The second half of the poem focusses on this theme
- 17. This cold word represents emotional distance
- 18. Hardy's 'friend' whom he retrospectively regrets not falling in love with
Down
- 1. Rhymes kept apart from each other
- 2. A change of mood
- 3. Feeling confused, apathetic or lacking enthusiasm
- 4. The first half of the poem focusses on this theme
- 5. Often the personified, mythical representation of love that Hardy challenges in the poem
- 7. Without rules - love operates in this way
- 9. Love not reciptocated
- 10. To cut or separate
- 13. Pertaining to the countryside
- 14. Love often behaves in this way
- 15. The couple were thought of as 'love's own...'