A Spirit Present Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQRS CTUTKVWV| IF coming from that unknown sphere | A |
| Where I believe thou art | B |
| The world unseen which girds our world | C |
| So close yet so apart | B |
| Thy soul's soft call unto my soul | D |
| Electrical could reach | E |
| And mortal and immortal blend | F |
| In one familiar speech | E |
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| What wouldst thou say to me wouldst ask | G |
| What since did me befall | H |
| Or close this chasm of cruel years | I |
| Between us knowing all | H |
| Wouldst love me thy pure eyes seeing that | J |
| God only saw beside | K |
| O love me 'T was so hard to live | L |
| So easy to have died | K |
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| If while this dizzy whirl of life | M |
| A moment pausing stayed | N |
| I face to face with thee could stand | O |
| I would not be afraid | N |
| Not though from heaven to heaven thy feet | P |
| In glad ascent have trod | Q |
| While mine took through earth's miry ways | R |
| Their solitary road | S |
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| We could not lose each other World | C |
| On world piled ever higher | T |
| Would part like banked clouds lightning cleft | U |
| By our two souls' desire | T |
| Life ne'er divided us death tried | K |
| But could not Love's voice fine | V |
| Called luring through the dark then ceased | W |
| And I am wholly thine | V |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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