Presentiments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQP RSTUUT VWXWWX YZSA2A2S B2B2WWWW C2D2E2F2F2E2 WWG2H2H2G2 D2MWWWW I2J2K2WWK2| Presentiments they judge not right | A |
| Who deem that ye from open light | A |
| Retire in fear of shame | B |
| All 'heaven born' Instincts shun the touch | C |
| Of vulgar sense and being such | C |
| Such privilege ye claim | B |
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| The tear whose source I could not guess | D |
| The deep sigh that seemed fatherless | E |
| Were mine in early days | F |
| And now unforced by time to part | G |
| With fancy I obey my heart | G |
| And venture on your praise | F |
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| What though some busy foes to good | H |
| Too potent over nerve and blood | I |
| Lurk near you and combine | J |
| To taint the health which ye infuse | K |
| This hides not from the moral Muse | K |
| Your origin divine | J |
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| How oft from you derided Powers | L |
| Comes Faith that in auspicious hours | L |
| Builds castles not of air | M |
| Bodings unsanctioned by the will | N |
| Flow from your visionary skill | N |
| And teach us to beware | M |
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| The bosom weight your stubborn gift | O |
| That no philosophy can lift | O |
| Shall vanish if ye please | P |
| Like morning mist and where it lay | Q |
| The spirits at your bidding play | Q |
| In gaiety and ease | P |
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| Star guided contemplations move | R |
| Through space though calm not raised above | S |
| Prognostics that ye rule | T |
| The naked Indian of the wild | U |
| And haply too the cradled Child | U |
| Are pupils of your school | T |
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| But who can fathom your intents | V |
| Number their signs or instruments | W |
| A rainbow a sunbeam | X |
| A subtle smell that Spring unbinds | W |
| Dead pause abrupt of midnight winds | W |
| An echo or a dream | X |
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| The laughter of the Christmas hearth | Y |
| With sighs of self exhausted mirth | Z |
| Ye feelingly reprove | S |
| And daily in the conscious breast | A2 |
| Your visitations are a test | A2 |
| And exercise of love | S |
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| When some great change gives boundless scope | B2 |
| To an exulting Nation's hope | B2 |
| Oft startled and made wise | W |
| By your low breathed interpretings | W |
| The simply meek foretaste the springs | W |
| Of bitter contraries | W |
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| Ye daunt the proud array of war | C2 |
| Pervade the lonely ocean far | D2 |
| As sail hath been unfurled | E2 |
| For dancers in the festive hall | F2 |
| What ghastly partners hath your call | F2 |
| Fetched from the shadowy world | E2 |
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| 'Tis said that warnings ye dispense | W |
| Emboldened by a keener sense | W |
| That men have lived for whom | G2 |
| With dread precision ye made clear | H2 |
| The hour that in a distant year | H2 |
| Should knell them to the tomb | G2 |
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| Unwelcome insight Yet there are | D2 |
| Blest times when mystery is laid bare | M |
| Truth shows a glorious face | W |
| While on that isthmus which commands | W |
| The councils of both worlds she stands | W |
| Sage Spirits by your grace | W |
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| God who instructs the brutes to scent | I2 |
| All changes of the element | J2 |
| Whose wisdom fixed the scale | K2 |
| Of natures for our wants provides | W |
| By higher sometimes humbler guides | W |
| When lights of reason fail | K2 |
William Wordsworth
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