The Skeleton In The Cupboard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCD EFGHIID JJKKLLD BBMMGGD| Just this one day in all the year | A |
| Let all be one let all be dear | A |
| Wife husband child in fond embrace | B |
| And thrust the phantom from its place | B |
| No bitter words no frowning brow | C |
| Disturb the Christmas festal now | C |
| The skeleton's behind the door | D |
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| Nor let the child with looks askance | E |
| Find out its sad inheritance | F |
| From souls that held no happiness | G |
| Of home where love is seldom guest | H |
| But in his coming years retain | I |
| This one sweet night that had no pain | I |
| The skeleton's behind the door | D |
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| In vain you raise the wassail bowl | J |
| And pledge your passion soul to soul | J |
| You hear the sweet bells ring in rhyme | K |
| You wreath the room for Christmas time | K |
| In vain The solemn silence falls | L |
| The death watch ticks within the walls | L |
| The skeleton taps on the door | D |
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| Then let him back into his place | B |
| Let us sit out the old disgrace | B |
| Nor seek the phantom now to lay | M |
| That haunted us through every day | M |
| For plainer is the ghost useless | G |
| Is this pretence of happiness | G |
| The skeleton taps on the door | D |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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