Pre-existence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ADAD FIFI JKJK CDCD| I laid me down upon the shore | A |
| And dreamed a little space | B |
| I heard the great waves break and roar | A |
| The sun was on my face | B |
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| My idle hands and fingers brown | C |
| Played with the pebbles grey | D |
| The waves came up the waves went down | C |
| Most thundering and gay | D |
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| The pebbles they were smooth and round | E |
| And warm upon my hands | F |
| Like little people I had found | E |
| Sitting among the sands | F |
| - | |
| The grains of sands so shining small | G |
| Soft through my fingers ran | H |
| The sun shone down upon it all | G |
| And so my dream began | H |
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| How all of this had been before | A |
| How ages far away | D |
| I lay on some forgotten shore | A |
| As here I lie to day | D |
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| The waves came shining up the sands | F |
| As here to day they shine | I |
| And in my pre pelasgian hands | F |
| The sand was warm and fine | I |
| - | |
| I have forgotten whence I came | J |
| Or what my home might be | K |
| Or by what strange and savage name | J |
| I called that thundering sea | K |
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| I only know the sun shone down | C |
| As still it shines to day | D |
| And in my fingers long and brown | C |
| The little pebbles lay | D |
Frances Darwin Cornford
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