Presentiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG HBHB I IJ| As unseen spheres cast shadows on the Earth | A |
| Some unknown cause depresses me to night | B |
| The house is full of laughter and sweet mirth | A |
| The day has held but pleasure and delight | B |
| - | |
| Down in the parlour some one blithely sings | C |
| A chime of laughter echoes in the hall | D |
| But all unseen by other eyes strange things | C |
| Rat like do seem to glide along the wall | D |
| - | |
| I rise and laugh and say I will not care | E |
| I call them idle fancies one and all | D |
| And yet suspended by a single hair | E |
| The sword of Fate seems trembling soon to fall | D |
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| I leave the house and walk the lighted street | F |
| And mingle with the pleasure seeking throng | G |
| And close behind me follow spectre feet | F |
| That pause with me or with me move along | G |
| - | |
| I seek my room and close and bolt the door | H |
| I draw the curtain and turn up the light | B |
| But close beside me closer than before | H |
| This nameless something stands but out of sight | B |
| - | |
| Ye mystic messenger of woe to come | I |
| Ye nameless nothing called 'Presentiment ' | - |
| Take form and face me be no longer dumb | I |
| But tell who thou art and wherefore sent | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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