The Ghost's Petition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC EFG EHG IJI KBL MBM NBN OBO PJP QRQ SAS TRT UFU VOV WJW XBA YFY AZA A2JB2 C2FC2 D2AD2 TA2T EE2E F2RF2

There's a footstep coming look out and seeA
The leaves are falling the wind is callingB
No one cometh across the leaA
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There's a footstep coming O sister lookC
The ripple flashes the white foam dashesD
No one cometh across the brookC
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But he promised that he would comeE
Tonight tomorrow in joy or sorrowF
He must keep his word and must come homeG
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For he promised that he would comeE
His word was given from earth or heavenH
He must keep his word and must come homeG
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Go to sleep my sweet sister JaneI
You can slumber who need not numberJ
Hour after hour in doubt and painI
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I shall sit here awhile and watchK
Listening hoping for one hand gropingB
In deep shadow to find the latchL
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After the dark and before the lightM
One lay sleeping and one sat weepingB
Who had watched and wept the weary nightM
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After the night and before the dayN
One lay sleeping and one sat weepingB
Watching weeping for one awayN
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There came a footstep climbing the stairO
Some one standing out on the landingB
Shook the door like a puff of airO
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Shook the door and in he passedP
Did he enter In the room centreJ
Stood her husband the door shut fastP
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O Robin but you are coldQ
Chilled with the night dew so lily white youR
Look like a stray lamb from our foldQ
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O Robin but you are lateS
Come and sit near me sit here and cheer meA
Blue the flame burnt in the grateS
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Lay not down your head on my breastT
I cannot hold you kind wife nor fold youR
In the shelter that you love bestT
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Feel not after my clasping handU
I am but a shadow come from the meadowF
Where many lie but no tree can standU
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We are trees which have shed their leavesV
Our heads lie low there but no tears flow thereO
Only I grieve for my wife who grievesV
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I could rest if you would not moanW
Hour after hour I have no powerJ
To shut my ears where I lie aloneW
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I could rest if you would not cryX
But there's no sleeping while you sit weepingB
Watching weeping so bitterlyA
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Woe's me woe's me for this I have heardY
Oh night of sorrow oh black tomorrowF
Is it thus that you keep your wordY
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O you who used so to shelter meA
Warm from the least wind why now tlie east windZ
Is warmer than you whom I quake to seeA
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O my husband offlesh and bloodA2
For whom my mother I left and brotherJ
And all I had accounting it goodB2
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What do you do there undergroundC2
In the dark hollow I'm fain to followF
What do you do there what have you foundC2
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What I do there I must not tellD2
But I have plenty kind wife content yeA
It is well with us it is wellD2
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Tender hand hath made our nestT
Our fear is ended our hope is blendedA2
With present pleasure and we have restT
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Oh but Robin I'm fain to comeE
If your present days are so pleasantE2
For my days are so wearisomeE
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Yet I'll dry my tears for your sakeF2
Why should I tease you who cannot please youR
Any more with the pains I takeF2

Christina Rossetti



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