Presage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIDI JKJK LMLN| The year declines and yet there is | A |
| A clearness as of hinted spring | B |
| And chilly like a virgin's kiss | C |
| The cold light touches everything | B |
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| The world seems dazed with purity | D |
| There hangs this spell bound afternoon | E |
| Beyond the naked cherry tree | D |
| The new wrought sickle of the moon | E |
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| What is this thraldom pale and still | F |
| That holds so passionless a sway | G |
| Lies death in this ethereal chill | F |
| New life or prelude of decay | G |
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| In the frail rapture of the sky | H |
| There bodes transfigured far aloof | I |
| The veil that hides eternity | D |
| With life for warp and death for woof | I |
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| We see the presage not with eyes | J |
| But dimly with the shrinking soul | K |
| Scarce guessing in this fateful guise | J |
| The glory that enwraps the whole | K |
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| The light no flesh may apprehend | L |
| Lent but to spirit eyes to give | M |
| Sign of that splendour of the end | L |
| That none may look upon and live | N |
Violet Jacob
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