Premonition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI IJIJ KLKL| The muffled syllables that Nature speaks | A |
| Fill us with deeper longing for her word | B |
| She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks | A |
| She makes a sweeter music than is heard | B |
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| A hidden light illumines all our seeing | C |
| An unknown love enchants our solitude | D |
| We feel and know that from the depths of being | C |
| Exhales an infinite a perfect good | E |
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| Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow | F |
| And be not happy like a naked star | G |
| Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow | F |
| Some rapture from the rapture felt afar | G |
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| Our heart strings are too coarse for Nature's fingers | H |
| Deftly to quicken as she pulses on | I |
| And the harsh tremor that among them lingers | H |
| Will into sweeter silence die anon | I |
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| We catch the broken prelude and suggestion | I |
| Of things unuttered needing to be sung | J |
| We know the burden of them and their question | I |
| Lies heavy on the heart nor finds a tongue | J |
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| Till haply lightning through the storm of ages | K |
| Our sullen secret flash from sky to sky | L |
| Glowing in some diviner poet's pages | K |
| And swelling into rapture from this sigh | L |
George Santayana
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