A Dead House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM NONPQEQE| When the clock hath ceased to tick | A |
| Soul like in the gloomy hall | B |
| When the latch no more doth click | A |
| Tongue like in the red peach wall | B |
| When no more come sounds of play | C |
| Mice nor children romping roam | D |
| Then looks down the eye of day | C |
| On a dead house not a home | D |
| - | |
| But when like an old sun's ghost | E |
| Haunts her vault the spectral moon | F |
| When earth's margins all are lost | G |
| Melting shapes nigh merged in swoon | F |
| Then a sound hark there again | H |
| No 'tis not a nibbling mouse | I |
| 'Tis a ghost unseen of men | H |
| Walking through the bare floored house | I |
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| And with lightning on the stair | J |
| To that silent upper room | K |
| With the thunder shaken air | J |
| Sudden gleaming into gloom | K |
| With a frost wind whistling round | L |
| From the raging northern coasts | M |
| Then mid sieging light and sound | L |
| All the house is live with ghosts | M |
| - | |
| Brother is thy soul a cell | N |
| Empty save of glittering motes | O |
| Where no live loves live and dwell | N |
| Only notions things and thoughts | P |
| Then thou wilt when comes a Breath | Q |
| Tempest shaking ridge and post | E |
| Find thyself alone with Death | Q |
| In a house where walks no ghost | E |
George Macdonald
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