The Poor Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCC DDD EEE FFFF GGH IJKK LLLL DDD| 'Oh whence do you come my dear friend to me | A |
| With your golden hair all fallen below your knee | A |
| And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea | A |
| And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea ' | B |
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| 'From the other world I come back to you | C |
| My locks are uncurled with dripping drenching dew | C |
| You know the old whilst I know the new | C |
| But to morrow you shall know this too ' | - |
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| 'Oh not to morrow into the dark I pray | D |
| Oh not to morrow too soon to go away | D |
| Here I feel warm and well content and gay | D |
| Give me another year another day ' | - |
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| 'Am I so changed in a day and a night | E |
| That mine own only love shrinks from me with fright | E |
| Is fain to turn away to left or right | E |
| And cover up his eyes from the sight ' | - |
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| 'Indeed I loved you my chosen friend | F |
| I loved you for life but life has an end | F |
| Through sickness I was ready to tend | F |
| But death mars all which we cannot mend | F |
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| 'Indeed I loved you I love you yet | G |
| If you will stay where your bed is set | G |
| Where I have planted a violet | H |
| Which the wind waves which the dew makes wet ' | - |
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| 'Life is gone then love too is gone | I |
| It was a reed that I leant upon | J |
| Never doubt I will leave you alone | K |
| And not wake you rattling bone with bone | K |
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| 'I go home alone to my bed | L |
| Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head | L |
| Roofed in with a load of lead | L |
| Warm enough for the forgotten dead | L |
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| 'But why did your tears soak through the clay | D |
| And why did your sobs wake me where I lay | D |
| I was away far enough away | D |
| Let me sleep now till the Judgment Day ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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