Haunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIJIFF KLKLMM NONOPP QRQRSS TUTUVV WGWG X YZYZPP| What are these nameless mysteries | A |
| These subtleties of life and death | B |
| That bring before our spirit eyes | C |
| The loved and lost or like a breath | B |
| Of lightest air will touch the cheek | D |
| And yet a wordless language speak | D |
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| In every breeze that blows to day | E |
| One voice seems speaking unto me | F |
| And north or south whichever way | E |
| I turn my gaze one face I see | F |
| And closely closely at my side | G |
| A mystic shadow seems to glide | G |
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| A motley crowd we move among | H |
| We surge on with the mighty mass | I |
| And yet no one in all the throng | J |
| Looks strangely on us as we pass | I |
| No eye but mine own seems to see | F |
| The nameless thing that walks by me | F |
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| I cannot touch a proffered hand | K |
| But this strange shadow glides between | L |
| Why came he from the spirit land | K |
| What brought him from the world unseen | L |
| Why am I troubled and oppressed | M |
| By the vague presence of my guest | M |
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| He was my friend I should rejoice | N |
| I loved him once Why do I fear | O |
| And yet I shudder as his voice | N |
| Speaks in the wind I feel him near | O |
| This restless spirit of the dead | P |
| And shiver with a nameless dread | P |
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| I loved him once he was my friend | Q |
| He held the first place in my heart | R |
| And might have held it to the end | Q |
| But our two ways spread wide apart | R |
| I kept the path upon the hill | S |
| And he went down and down until | S |
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| He reached the depths of sin and shame | T |
| And died as sots and drunkards die | U |
| I ceased to even speak his name | T |
| God knows I never thought that I | U |
| Who blamed his lack of moral strength | V |
| Might answer for his fall at length | V |
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| O restless dead lost friend of mine | W |
| I might have saved you had I tried | G |
| I saw you lift the glass of wine | W |
| And seeing had I warned you cried | G |
| 'Touch not taste not the drink accursed ' | - |
| I might have saved you from the thirst | X |
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| That swallowed up your brain and soul | Y |
| But nay I scorned you when you fell | Z |
| And looking upward to my goal | Y |
| Left you to stagger down to hell | Z |
| Accusing spirit of the dead | P |
| Your presence fills my heart with dread | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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