Presentiment. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLALA MNMGMDMMD ODODPQPQ RMMSDTDU VWNWBKBK AXAXXYKY SMRMKRXR| Sister you've sat there all the day | A |
| Come to the hearth awhile | B |
| The wind so wildly sweeps away | A |
| The clouds so darkly pile | B |
| That open book has lain unread | C |
| For hours upon your knee | D |
| You've never smiled nor turned your head | C |
| What can you sister see | D |
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| Come hither Jane look down the field | E |
| How dense a mist creeps on | F |
| The path the hedge are both concealed | E |
| Ev'n the white gate is gone | G |
| No landscape through the fog I trace | H |
| No hill with pastures green | I |
| All featureless is Nature's face | H |
| All masked in clouds her mien | I |
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| Scarce is the rustle of a leaf | J |
| Heard in our garden now | K |
| The year grows old its days wax brief | J |
| The tresses leave its brow | K |
| The rain drives fast before the wind | L |
| The sky is blank and grey | A |
| O Jane what sadness fills the mind | L |
| On such a dreary day | A |
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| You think too much my sister dear | M |
| You sit too long alone | N |
| What though November days be drear | M |
| Full soon will they be gone | G |
| I've swept the hearth and placed your chair | M |
| Come Emma sit by me | D |
| Our own fireside is never drear | M |
| Though late and wintry wane the year | M |
| Though rough the night may be | D |
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| The peaceful glow of our fireside | O |
| Imparts no peace to me | D |
| My thoughts would rather wander wide | O |
| Than rest dear Jane with thee | D |
| I'm on a distant journey bound | P |
| And if about my heart | Q |
| Too closely kindred ties were bound | P |
| 'Twould break when forced to part | Q |
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| 'Soon will November days be o'er ' | - |
| Well have you spoken Jane | R |
| My own forebodings tell me more | M |
| For me I know by presage sure | M |
| They'll ne'er return again | S |
| Ere long nor sun nor storm to me | D |
| Will bring or joy or gloom | T |
| They reach not that Eternity | D |
| Which soon will be my home | U |
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| Eight months are gone the summer sun | V |
| Sets in a glorious sky | W |
| A quiet field all green and lone | N |
| Receives its rosy dye | W |
| Jane sits upon a shaded stile | B |
| Alone she sits there now | K |
| Her head rests on her hand the while | B |
| And thought o'ercasts her brow | K |
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| She's thinking of one winter's day | A |
| A few short months ago | X |
| Then Emma's bier was borne away | A |
| O'er wastes of frozen snow | X |
| She's thinking how that drifted snow | X |
| Dissolved in spring's first gleam | Y |
| And how her sister's memory now | K |
| Fades even as fades a dream | Y |
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| The snow will whiten earth again | S |
| But Emma comes no more | M |
| She left 'mid winter's sleet and rain | R |
| This world for Heaven's far shore | M |
| On Beulah's hills she wanders now | K |
| On Eden's tranquil plain | R |
| To her shall Jane hereafter go | X |
| She ne'er shall come to Jane | R |
Charlotte Bronte
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