The Haunted Homes Of England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHFFIF FHFHJKLK ABMBNHGH| The Haunted Homes of England | A |
| How eerily they stand | B |
| While through them flit their ghosts to wit | C |
| The Monk with the Red Hand | B |
| The Eyeless Girl an awful spook | D |
| To stop the boldest breath | E |
| The boy that inked his copybook | D |
| And so got 'wopped' to death | E |
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| Call them not shams from haunted Glamis | F |
| To haunted Woodhouselea | G |
| I mark in hosts the grisly ghosts | F |
| I hear the fell Banshie | H |
| I know the spectral dog that howls | F |
| Before the death of Squires | F |
| In my 'Ghosts' guide' addresses hide | I |
| For Podmore and for Myers | F |
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| I see the Vampire climb the stairs | F |
| From vaults below the church | H |
| And hark the Pirate's spectre swears | F |
| O Psychical Research | H |
| Canst THOU not hear what meets my ear | J |
| The viewless wheels that come | K |
| The wild Banshie that wails to thee | L |
| The Drummer with his drum | K |
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| O Haunted Homes of England | A |
| Though tenantless ye stand | B |
| With none content to pay the rent | M |
| Through all the shadowy land | B |
| Now Science true will find in you | N |
| A sympathetic perch | H |
| And take you all both Grange and Hall | G |
| For Psychical Research | H |
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