The Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCCB DEFGEHHE IJKKJBBJ BLKKLKKL MNEENEEN| Through the open door of dreamland | A |
| Came a ghost of long ago long ago | B |
| When I wakened all unheeding | B |
| Was the phantom to my pleading | B |
| For he would not turn and go | B |
| But beside me all the day | C |
| In my work and in my play | C |
| Trod this ghost of long ago long ago | B |
| - | |
| Not a vague and pallid phantom | D |
| Was this ghost that came to me followed me | E |
| Though he rose from regions haunted | F |
| Though he came unbid unwanted | G |
| He was very fair to see | E |
| Like the radiant sun in space | H |
| Was the halo round the face | H |
| Of that ghost that came to me followed me | E |
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| And he wore no shroud or cere cloth | I |
| As he wandered at my side close beside | J |
| He was clothed in royal splendour | K |
| And his eyes were deep and tender | K |
| While he walked in stately pride | J |
| And he seemed like some great king | B |
| Not afraid of anything | B |
| As he wandered at my side close beside | J |
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| Then I turned to him commanding | B |
| That he go the way he came whence he came | L |
| But he answered me in sorrow | K |
| May the Past not seek to borrow | K |
| From the Present without blame | L |
| Just one memory from its store | K |
| Ere it goes to come no more | K |
| Back the pathway that it came whence it came | L |
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| Then ashamed of my full coffers | M |
| I gave forth from Memory's hold wondrous hold | N |
| All I owed of tax and duty | E |
| For remembered hours of beauty | E |
| Which I paid in thoughts of gold | N |
| Yet my present seemed to be | E |
| Richer still for all the fee | E |
| I gave forth from Memory's hold wondrous hold | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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