The Presentation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFG HIJIKKI| When in the womb of Time our souls' own son | A |
| Dear Love lay sleeping till his natal hour | B |
| Long months I knew not that sweet life begun | A |
| Too dimly treasuring thy touch of power | B |
| And wandering all those days | C |
| By far off ways | C |
| Forgot immortal seed must have immortal flower | B |
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| Only beloved since my beloved thou art | D |
| I do remember now that memory's vain | E |
| How twice or thrice beneath my beating heart | D |
| Life quickened suddenly with proudest pain | E |
| Then dreamed I Love's increase | F |
| Yet held my peace | F |
| Till I might render thee thy own great gift again | G |
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| For as with bodies so with souls it is | H |
| The greater gives the lesser doth conceive | I |
| That thou hast fathered Love I tell thee this | J |
| And by my pangs beseech thee to believe | I |
| Look on his hope divine | K |
| Thy hope and mine | K |
| Pity his outstretched hands tenderly him receive | I |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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