The Disappointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLML NOPOQRST UVWWXYZA WA2WA2B2C2CC2| A house I took and many a spook | A |
| Was deemed to haunt that House | B |
| I bade the glum Researchers come | C |
| With Bogles to carouse | D |
| That House I'd sought with anxious thought | E |
| 'Twas old 'twas dark as sin | F |
| And deeds of bale so ran the tale | G |
| Had oft been done therein | F |
| - | |
| Full many a child its mother wild | H |
| Men said had strangled there | I |
| Full many a sire in heedless ire | J |
| Had slain his daughter fair | I |
| 'Twas rarely let I can't forget | K |
| A recent tenant's dread | L |
| This widow lone had heard a moan | M |
| Proceeding from her bed | L |
| - | |
| The tenants next were chiefly vexed | N |
| By spectres grim and grey | O |
| A Headless Ghost annoyed them most | P |
| And so they did not stay | O |
| The next in turn saw corpse lights burn | Q |
| And also a Banshie | R |
| A spectral Hand they could not stand | S |
| And left the House to me | T |
| - | |
| Then came my friends for divers ends | U |
| Some curious some afraid | V |
| No direr pest disturbed their rest | W |
| Than a neat chambermaid | W |
| The grisly halls were gay with balls | X |
| One melancholy nook | Y |
| Where ghosts GALORE were seen before | Z |
| Now yielded ne'er a spook | A |
| - | |
| When man and maid all unafraid | W |
| 'Sat out' upon the stairs | A2 |
| No spectre dread with feet of lead | W |
| Came past them unawares | A2 |
| I know not why but alway I | B2 |
| Have found that it is so | C2 |
| That when the glum Researchers come | C |
| The brutes of bogeys go | C2 |
Andrew Lang
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