Haunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDF GHG| THE house is haunted when the little feet | A |
| Go pattering about it in their play | B |
| I tremble lest the little one should meet | A |
| The ghosts that haunt the happy night and day | B |
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| And yet I think they only come to me | C |
| They come through night of ease and pleasant day | B |
| To whisper of the torment that must be | C |
| If I some day should be alas as they | B |
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| And when the child is lying warm asleep | D |
| The ghosts draw back the curtain of my bed | E |
| And past them through the dreadful dark I creep | D |
| Clasp close the child and so am comforted | F |
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| Cling close cling close my darling my delight | G |
| Sad voices on the wind come thin and wild | H |
| Ghosts of poor mothers crying in the night | G |
| 'Father have pity once I had a child ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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