The Ghost Of Goshen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCB DDEFFFE GGBHHHB IIEAA E JKFCCCF LL MMMN OONPPPQ RRFCCCF| Through Goshen Hollow where hemlocks grow | A |
| Where rushing rills with flash and flow | A |
| Are over the rough rocks falling | B |
| Where fox where bear and catamount hide | C |
| In holes and dens In the mountain side | C |
| A Circuit preacher once used to ride | C |
| And his name was Rufus Rawling | B |
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| He was set in his ways and what was strange | D |
| If you argued with him he would not change | D |
| One could get nothing through him | E |
| Solemn and slow In style was he | F |
| Slender and slim as a tamarack tree | F |
| And always ready to disagree | F |
| With every one that knew him | E |
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| One night he saddled his sorrel mare | G |
| And started over to Ripton where | G |
| He had promised to do some preaching | B |
| Away he cantered over the hill | H |
| Past the schoolhouse at Capen's mill | H |
| The moon was down and the place was still | H |
| Save the sound of a night hawk screeching | B |
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| At last he came to a deep ravine | I |
| He felt a kind of queer and mean | I |
| Sensation stealing o'er him | E |
| Old Sorrel began to travel slow | A |
| Then gave a snort and refused to go | A |
| The parson chucked and he holloa'd 'whoa ' | - |
| And wondered what was before him | E |
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| Then suddenly he seemed to hear | J |
| A gurgling groan so very near | K |
| It scattered his senses nearly | F |
| 'Go 'ome go'ome ' It loudly cried | C |
| 'Go 'ome ' re echoed the mountain side | C |
| 'Go 'ome ' away In the distance died | C |
| He wished he was home sincerely | F |
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| And then before his startled sight | L |
| A light flashed out upon the night | L |
| That seemed to 'beat all creation ' | - |
| Then through the bushes a figure stole | M |
| With eyes of fire and lips of coal | M |
| That froze his blood and shook his soul | M |
| With horror and consternation | N |
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| He lost his sermon he dropped his book | O |
| His hair stood up and his saddle shook | O |
| Like a sawmill under motion | N |
| No cry he uttered no word he said | P |
| But suddenly turning Sorrel's head | P |
| Away and out of the woods he fled | P |
| As fast as he could for Goshen | Q |
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| The ghost he saw and the rattling bones | R |
| Were a pumpkin a gourd and some gravel stones | R |
| That gave him all that glory | F |
| But ne'er again up that mountain side | C |
| In the light would Rufus Rawling ride | C |
| And many a time I've laughed till I cried | C |
| To hear him tell the story | F |
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