Ghosts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEE FFGGHHIIAA| YES kiss my forehead where the pain | A |
| Is grinding outwards from my brain | A |
| But will not pity teach you too | B |
| To kiss these lips no fire burns through | B |
| These cheeks made colourless and thin | C |
| By years you had no portion in | C |
| These weary eyes that wake and ache | D |
| Not for your sake not for your sake | D |
| Kiss child and let your kisses see | E |
| If they can find the heart in me | E |
| There is a heart or used to be | E |
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| I think the pain is growing less | F |
| Under your passionless caress | F |
| Ah could you teach my lips to crave | G |
| But just such kisses as you gave | G |
| And could you treading my life's ways | H |
| But lay these ghosts of dear dead days | H |
| That walk my world by day and night | I |
| And bar the way of all delight | I |
| If at your touch should waken Vain | A |
| From heaven itself my soul would plain | A |
| 'Give me my ghosts my ghosts again ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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