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