The Ghosts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAABC ADEAAFE G H GIH JKLMJKL BCBC| There was no wind and yet the air | A |
| Seemed suddenly astir | A |
| There were no forms and yet all space | B |
| Seemed thronged with growing hosts | C |
| They came from Where and from Nowhere | A |
| Like phantoms as they were | A |
| They came from many a land and place | B |
| The ghosts the ghosts the ghosts | C |
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| And some were white and some were grey | A |
| And some were red as blood | D |
| Those ghosts of men who met their death | E |
| Upon the field of war | A |
| Against the skies of fading day | A |
| Like banks of cloud they stood | F |
| And each wraith asked another wraith | E |
| 'What were we fighting for ' | - |
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| One said 'I was my mother's all | G |
| And she was old and blind ' | - |
| Another 'Back on earth my wife | H |
| And week old baby lie ' | - |
| Another 'At the bugle's call | G |
| I left my bride behind | I |
| Love made so beautiful my life | H |
| I could not bear to die ' | - |
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| In voices like the winds that moan | J |
| Among pine trees at night | K |
| They whispered long the newly dead | L |
| While listening stars came out | M |
| 'We wonder if the cause is known | J |
| And if the war was right | K |
| That killed us in our prime ' they said | L |
| 'And what it was about ' | - |
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| They came in throngs that filled all space | B |
| Those whispering phantom hosts | C |
| They came from many a land and place | B |
| The ghosts the ghosts the ghosts | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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