Village Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| The woman in the pointed hood | A |
| And cloak blue gray like a pigeon's wing | B |
| Whose orchard climbs to the balsam wood | A |
| Has done a cruel thing | B |
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| To her back door step came a ghost | C |
| A girl who had been ten years dead | D |
| She stood by the granite hitching post | C |
| And begged for a piece of bread | D |
| - | |
| Now why should I who walk alone | E |
| Who am ironical and proud | F |
| Turn when a woman casts a stone | E |
| At a beggar in a shroud | F |
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| I saw the dead girl cringe and whine | G |
| And cower in the weeping air | H |
| But oh she was no kin of mine | G |
| And so I did not care | H |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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