The Ghost Speaks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEECEC FGFGGCGC HIHIIJCIC| A ghost is the freak of a sick man's brain | A |
| Then why do ye start and shiver so | B |
| That's the sob and drip of a leaky drain | A |
| But it sounds like another noise we know | B |
| The heavy drops drummed red and slow | B |
| The drops ran down as slow as fate | C |
| Do ye hear them still it was long ago | B |
| But here in the shadows I wait I wait | C |
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| Spirits there be that pass in peace | D |
| Mine passed in a whorl of wrath and dole | E |
| And the hour that your choking breath shall cease | D |
| I will get my grip on your naked soul | E |
| Nor pity may stay nor prayer cajole | E |
| I would drag ye whining from Hell's own gate | C |
| To me to me ye must pay the toll | E |
| And here in the shadows I wait I wait | C |
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| The dead they are dead they are out of the way | F |
| And a ghost is the whim of an ailing mind | G |
| Then why did ye whiten with fear to day | F |
| When ye heard a voice in the calling wind | G |
| Why did ye falter and look behind | G |
| At the creeping mists when the hour grew late | C |
| Ye would see my face were ye stricken blind | G |
| And here in the shadows I wait I wait | C |
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| Drink and forget make merry and boast | H |
| But the boast rings false and the jest is thin | I |
| In the hour that I meet ye ghost to ghost | H |
| Stripped of the flesh that ye skulk within | I |
| Stripped to the coward soul 'ware of its sin | I |
| Ye shall learn ye shall learn whether dead men | J |
| hate | C |
| Ah a weary time has the waiting been | I |
| But here in the shadows I wait I wait | C |
Don Marquis
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