There is no single rhyme scheme, but there are individual patterns of rhyme in each stanza. Wordsworth uses several different metrical patterns used throughout the poem. Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood poem by William Wordsworth. There was a time when meadow grove and stream The earth and every common sight To … ‘ Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ by William Wordsworth is a 206 line poem that is split in eleven stanzas of varying lengths.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood By William Wordsworth About this Poet Philip Larkin once recalled hearing William Wordsworth’s poem ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ recited on BBC radio, and having to pull over to the side of the road, as his eyes had filled with tears. Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A Presence which is not to be put by; To whom the grave Is but a lonely bed, without the sense of sight Of day or the warm light, A place of thoughts where we in waiting lie; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,