Dead Man's Morrice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCDCD GHGHCDCD FIFICDCD JKJKCDCD LMLMCNCD| There came a crowder to the Mermaid Inn | A |
| One dark May night | B |
| Fiddling a tune that quelled our motley din | A |
| With quaint delight | B |
| It haunts me yet as old lost airs will do | C |
| A phantom strain | D |
| Look for me once lest I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
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| In that old wood where ghosts of lovers walk | E |
| At fall of day | F |
| Gleaning such fragments of their ancient talk | E |
| As poor ghosts may | F |
| From leaves that brushed their faces wet with dew | C |
| Or tears or rain | D |
| Look for me once lest I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
| - | |
| Have we not seen them pale forgotten shades | G |
| That do return | H |
| Groping for those dim paths those fragrant glades | G |
| Those nooks of fern | H |
| Only to find that of the may they knew | C |
| No wraiths remain | D |
| Yet they still look as I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
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| They see those happier ghosts that waned away | F |
| Whither who knows | I |
| Ghosts that come back with music and the may | F |
| And Spring's first rose | I |
| Lover and lass to sing the old burden through | C |
| Stave and refrain | D |
| Look for me once lest I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
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| So after death if in that starless deep | J |
| I lose your eyes | K |
| I'll haunt familiar places I'll not keep | J |
| Tryst in the skies | K |
| I'll haunt the whispering elms that found us true | C |
| The old grass grown lane | D |
| Look for me there lest I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
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| There as of old under the dreaming moon | L |
| A phantom throng | M |
| Floats through the fern to a ghostly morrice tune | L |
| A thin sweet song | M |
| Hands link with hands eyes drown in eyes anew | C |
| Lips meet again | N |
| Look for me once lest I should look for you | C |
| And look in vain | D |
Alfred Noyes
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