Ghost That Wouldn't Lie Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCE FGFGHDHH FIFIJDJK LMLMNDNN| Once have we bashed him on the head | A |
| Twice have we stabbed him deep | B |
| Thrice have we left him there for dead | A |
| And yet he will not sleep | B |
| But rise up from out his grave | C |
| To gibber and repine | D |
| And generally misbehave | C |
| By raving as lost spirits rave | C |
| 'Oh Body Bodyline ' | E |
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| We've sneaked on him at dead of night | F |
| And bashed his grinning face | G |
| And flung him down and rammed him tight | F |
| Into his resting place | G |
| We've tied a weight about his neck | H |
| And cast him to the brine | D |
| But lo next day he's back on deck | H |
| Like some damp victim of a wreck | H |
| To babble 'Bodyline ' | - |
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| We've exorcised him with due rite | F |
| Of candle book and bell | I |
| But back he toddled in the night | F |
| His sad tale to re tell | I |
| His grizly mien when he appears | J |
| Sends shivers down our spine | D |
| And wakes our superstitious fears | J |
| What time he blubbers thro' his tears | K |
| 'Pity poor Bodyline ' | - |
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| Alas he can not die poor bloke | L |
| And cease from haunting us | M |
| Les England with a single stroke | L |
| Gives him his quietus | M |
| Then at the bleak crossroads shall we | N |
| When ne'er a moon doth shine | D |
| Inter his bones triumphantly | N |
| And write above with savage glee | N |
| 'Hic jacet Bodyline ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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