The Black Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACD EDEDDD ECFCDD CGCGCC HDHDDD CFCIJJ KCCLJD DMDMCC| Trundling and scuffling around | A |
| Upon purlieus hut tops and facia | B |
| If thousands rain of stones pound | A |
| Call out search but none found | A |
| Was believed there's reasons for it | C |
| That purveyed sorts of cleasing rites | D |
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| Such quaint wont of folks then | E |
| That wore them with terrific awes | D |
| Even elephants laid not such in den | E |
| Neither young koalas in their cases | D |
| Not in Africa Perchance of frightful lours | D |
| Or the terrors of yon disastrous hours | D |
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| No child dare played ten ten | E |
| Nor any sheep raised a bleat | C |
| Like a Lackey A martyred alien | F |
| What made them fools of this habit | C |
| Were those joyless gales from iroko trees | D |
| The black lurking cats skulking witches | D |
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| That lanced and feasted on men's blood | C |
| Conveyed to murder at such scary time | G |
| In gaunty graves dells and deep ford | C |
| How as spider be in snowy clime | G |
| Were cowards' heart spurted by fears and cold | C |
| With whom by daylight proves to be bold | C |
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| The imagination of this make believe | H |
| And untrue sciences great superstitions | D |
| Some indictments which many conceive | H |
| And infer today withno reservations | D |
| To look mirrors at night may burst calamities | D |
| Devil appears therein Wring you for this | D |
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| All of these beliefs were observed | C |
| If you walk under a scorching sun | F |
| With his heavy strap long conserved | C |
| From pole to pole bourn to bourn | I |
| A ghoul shall brutally flog you | J |
| And be compelled to serve a monkey push too | J |
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| At noontime never brush your teeth | K |
| By this your mother foams and die | C |
| Squash not your spittle with feet | C |
| If so you suffer harsh throat pile | L |
| Your father forgets to punish you | J |
| When your eyelashes are hid in his shoes | D |
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| Playing kids in Africa ne'er whistles | D |
| Some says It wakes maddens the devil | M |
| Rages the spooks and that cobras bristles | D |
| Call it evil but It's for no evil | M |
| Our lack is nothing but to promote | C |
| Obey Respect tradition in Africa and remote | C |
Adebayo Sir Toby
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