Presentiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE DGGD HIIH| WITH saintly grace and reverent tread | A |
| She walked among the graves with me | B |
| Her every footfall seemed to be | B |
| A benediction on the dead | A |
| - | |
| The guardian spirit of the place | C |
| She seemed and I some ghost forlorn | D |
| Surprised by the untimely morn | D |
| She made with her resplendent face | C |
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| Moved by some waywardness of will | E |
| Three paces from the path apart | F |
| She stepped and stood my prescient heart | F |
| Was stricken with a passing chill | E |
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| My child lore of the years agone | D |
| Remembering I smiled and thought | G |
| Who shudders suddenly at naught | G |
| His grave is being trod upon | D |
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| But now I know that it was more | H |
| Than idle fancy O my sweet | I |
| I did not know such little feet | I |
| Could make a buried heart so sore | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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