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Poetry Appreciation - "Mean Time" This poem concerns a lover mourning the ending of a long, deeply meaningful relationship. The sense of loss is reflected in the surrounding environment and this shift of feeling towards the environment emphasises the narrator's loss. Like many of Carol Ann Duffy's poems, "Mean Time" is written in free verse, with an extremely loose rhyme scheme. Throughout the course of the poem there seems to be very little punctuation. However, there are full stops at the end of each stanza and at the end of "beyond all light," there is a full stop which influences a pause, thus allowing the implications of the sentence to sink into the reader. "Mean Time," the title has three alternative meanings such as: * Greenwich Mean Time - This is used as a metaphoric occasion in the poem, when the clocks go back in autumn, consequently the evenings becoming suddenly darker....

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