Foreshadowings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJDDKK LLMMNNOO PQRRSSTU VVWWFFXX YYNNZZLL| FIFTEEN miles and then the harbour Here we cannot choose but stand | A |
| Faces thrust towards the day break listening for our native land | A |
| Close reefed topsails shuddering over straining down the groaning mast | B |
| For a tempest cleaves the darkness hissing howling shrieking past | B |
| Lo the air is flecked with stormbirds and their melancholy wail | C |
| Lends a tone of deeper pathos to the melancholy gale | C |
| Whilst away they wheel to leeward leaving in their rapid flight | D |
| Wind and water grappling wildly through the watches of the night | D |
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| Yesterday we both were happy but my soul is filled with change | E |
| And I m sad my gallant comrade with foreshadowings vague and strange | E |
| Dear old place are we so near you Like to one that speaks in sleep | F |
| I m talking thinking wildly o er this moaning maddened deep | F |
| Much it makes me marvel brother that such thoughts should linger nigh | G |
| Now we know what shore is hidden somewhere in that misty sky | G |
| Oh I even fear to see it and I ve never felt so low | H |
| Since we turned our faces from it seven weary years ago | H |
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| Have you faith at all in omens Fits of passion I have known | I |
| When it seemed in crowded towns as if I walked the Earth alone | I |
| And amongst my comrades often o er the lucent laughing sea | J |
| I have felt like one that drifteth on a dark and dangerous lee | J |
| As a man who crossing waters underneath a moony night | D |
| Knows there will be gloomy weather if a cloudrack bounds the light | D |
| So I hold when Life is splendid and our hopes are new and warm | K |
| We can sometimes looking forward see the shade and feel the storm | K |
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| When you called me I was dreaming that this thunder raged no more | L |
| And we travelled both together on a calm delightful shore | L |
| That we went along rejoicing for I thought I heard you say | M |
| Now we soon shall see them brother now our fears have passed away | M |
| Pleasant were those deep green wild woods and we hurried like a breeze | N |
| Till I saw a distant opening through the porches of the trees | N |
| And our village faintly gleaming past the forest and the stream | O |
| But we wandered sadly through it with the Spirit of my Dream | O |
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| Why was our delight so fickle Was it well while there to mourn | P |
| When the loved the loving crowding came to welcome our return | Q |
| In my vision once so glorious did we find that aught was changed | R |
| Or that ONE whom WE remembered was forgotten or estranged | R |
| Through a mist of many voices listening for sweet accents fled | S |
| Heard we hints of lost affection or of gentle faces dead | S |
| No but on the quiet dreamscape came a darkness like a pall | T |
| And a ghostly shadow brother fell and rested over all | U |
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| Talking thus my friend I fronted and in trustful tones he spake | V |
| I have long been waiting watching here to see the morning break | V |
| Now behold the bright fulfilment Did my Spirit yearn in vain | W |
| And amidst this holy splendour can a moody heart remain | W |
| Let them pass those wayward fancies Waking thoughts return with sleep | F |
| And they mingle strangely sometimes while we lie in slumber deep | F |
| But believe me dreams are nothing If unto His creatures weak | X |
| God should whisper of the Future not in riddles will He speak | X |
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| Since he answered I have rested for his brave words fell like balm | Y |
| And we reached the land in daylight and the tempest died in calm | Y |
| Though the sounds of gusty fragments of a faint and broken breeze | N |
| Still went gliding with the runnels gurgling down the spangled leas | N |
| So we turned and travelled onward till we rested at a place | Z |
| Where a Vision fell about us sunned with many a lovely face | Z |
| Then we heard low silvery voices and I knelt upon the shore | L |
| Knelt and whispered God I thank Thee and will wander never more | L |
Henry Kendall
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