Presentiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFHIJIJ KLKLMAM NONHNDNN PDPDQRQR SNNTDUD VWOWBLBL AXAXXYLY TNSNLSXS' 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 ' | E |
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' Come hither Jane look down the field | F |
How dense a mist creeps on | G |
The path the hedge are both concealed | F |
Ev'n the white gate is gone | H |
No landscape through the fog I trace | I |
No hill with pastures green | J |
All featureless is nature's face | I |
All masked in clouds her mien | J |
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' Scarce is the rustle of a leaf | K |
Heard in our garden now | L |
The year grows old its days wax brief | K |
The tresses leave its brow | L |
The rain drives fast before the wind | M |
The sky is blank and grey | A |
O Jane what sadness fills the mind | M |
On such a dreary day ' | - |
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' You think too much my sister dear | N |
You sit too long alone | O |
What though November days be drear | N |
Full soon will they be gone | H |
I've swept the hearth and placed your chair | N |
Come Emma sit by me | D |
Our own fireside is never drear | N |
Though late and wintry wane the year | N |
Though rough the night may be ' | - |
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' The peaceful glow of our fireside | P |
Imparts no peace to me | D |
My thoughts would rather wander wide | P |
Than rest dear Jane with thee | D |
I'm on a distant journey bound | Q |
And if about my heart | R |
Too closely kindred ties were bound | Q |
'T would break when forced to part | R |
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' ' Soon will November days be o'er ' | - |
Well have you spoken Jane | S |
My own forebodings tell me more | N |
For me I know by presage sure | N |
They'll ne'er return again | T |
Ere long nor sun nor storm to me | D |
Will bring or joy or gloom | U |
They reach not that Eternity | D |
Which soon will be my home ' | - |
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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 | O |
Receives its rosy dye | W |
Jane sits upon a shaded stile | B |
Alone she sits there now | L |
Her head rests on her hand the while | B |
And thought o'ercasts her brow | L |
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She's thinking of one winter's day | A |
A few short months ago | X |
When 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 | L |
Fades even as fades a dream | Y |
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The snow will whiten earth again | T |
But Emma comes no more | N |
She left 'mid winter's sleet and rain | S |
This world for Heaven's far shore | N |
On Beulah's hills she wanders now | L |
On Eden's tranquil plain | S |
To her shall Jane hereafter go | X |
She ne'er shall come to Jane | S |
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