The Ghost's Petition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA C DEF DGF HIH JB KBK LBL MBM NIN OPO Q Q RPR SES TMT UIU VB WEW XYX ZIA2 B2E C2XC2 RZ DD2D E2P| 'There's a footstep coming look out and see ' | A |
| 'The leaves are falling the wind is calling | B |
| No one cometh across the lea ' | A |
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| 'There's a footstep coming O sister look ' | - |
| 'The ripple flashes the white foam dashes | C |
| No one cometh across the brook ' | - |
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| 'But he promised that he would come | D |
| To night to morrow in joy or sorrow | E |
| He must keep his word and must come home | F |
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| 'For he promised that he would come | D |
| His word was given from earth or heaven | G |
| He must keep his word and must come home | F |
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| 'Go to sleep my sweet sister Jane | H |
| You can slumber who need not number | I |
| Hour after hour in doubt and pain | H |
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| 'I shall sit here awhile and watch | J |
| Listening hoping for one hand groping | B |
| In deep shadow to find the latch ' | - |
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| After the dark and before the light | K |
| One lay sleeping and one sat weeping | B |
| Who had watched and wept the weary night | K |
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| After the night and before the day | L |
| One lay sleeping and one sat weeping | B |
| Watching weeping for one away | L |
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| There came a footstep climbing the stair | M |
| Some one standing out on the landing | B |
| Shook the door like a puff of air | M |
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| Shook the door and in he passed | N |
| Did he enter In the room centre | I |
| Stood her husband the door shut fast | N |
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| 'O Robin but you are cold | O |
| Chilled with the night dew so lily white you | P |
| Look like a stray lamb from our fold | O |
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| 'O Robin but you are late | Q |
| Come and sit near me sit here and cheer me ' | - |
| Blue the flame burnt in the grate | Q |
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| 'Lay not down your head on my breast | R |
| I cannot hold you kind wife nor fold you | P |
| In the shelter that you love best | R |
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| 'Feel not after my clasping hand | S |
| I am but a shadow come from the meadow | E |
| Where many lie but no tree can stand | S |
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| 'We are trees which have shed their leaves | T |
| Our heads lie low there but no tears flow there | M |
| Only I grieve for my wife who grieves | T |
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| 'I could rest if you would not moan | U |
| Hour after hour I have no power | I |
| To shut my ears where I lie alone | U |
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| 'I could rest if you would not cry | V |
| But there's no sleeping while you sit weeping | B |
| Watching weeping so bitterly ' | - |
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| 'Woe's me woe's me for this I have heard | W |
| Oh night of sorrow oh black to morrow | E |
| Is it thus that you keep your word | W |
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| 'O you who used so to shelter me | X |
| Warm from the least wind why now the east wind | Y |
| Is warmer than you whom I quake to see | X |
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| 'O my husband of flesh and blood | Z |
| For whom my mother I left and brother | I |
| And all I had accounting it good | A2 |
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| 'What do you do there underground | B2 |
| In the dark hollow I'm fain to follow | E |
| What do you do there what have you found ' | - |
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| 'What I do there I must not tell | C2 |
| But I have plenty kind wife content ye | X |
| It is well with us it is well | C2 |
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| 'Tender hand hath made our nest | R |
| Our fear is ended our hope is blended | Z |
| With present pleasure and we have rest ' | - |
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| 'Oh but Robin I'm fain to come | D |
| If your present days are so pleasant | D2 |
| For my days are so wearisome | D |
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| 'Yet I'll dry my tears for your sake | E2 |
| Why should I tease you who cannot please you | P |
| Any more with the pains I take ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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