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The Homeless Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Through still bare streets and cold moonshine	A
His homeward way he bent	B
The clocks gave out the midnight sign	A
As lost in thought he went	B
Along the rampart's ocean line	A
Where high above the tossing brine	A
Seaward his lattice leant	C
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He knew not why he left the throng	D
Why there he could not rest	E
What something pained him in the song	D
And mocked him in the jest	E
Or why the flitting crowd among	F
A moveless moonbeam lay so long	D
Athwart one lady's breast	E
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He watched but saw her speak to none	G
Saw no one speak to her	H
Like one decried she stood alone	I
From the window did not stir	H
Her hair by a haunting gust was blown	I
Her eyes in the shadow strangely shown	I
She looked a wanderer	H
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He reached his room he sought a book	J
His brooding to beguile	K
But ever he saw her pallid look	J
Her face too still to smile	K
An hour he sat in his fireside nook	J
The time flowed past like a silent brook	J
Not a word he read the while	K
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Vague thoughts absorbed his passive brain	L
Of love that bleeding lies	M
Of hoping ever and hoping in vain	L
Of a sorrow that never dies	M
When a sudden spatter of angry rain	L
Smote against every window pane	L
And he heard far sea birds' cries	M
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He looked from the lattice the misty moon	N
Hardly a glimmer gave	O
The wind was like one that hums a tune	N
The first low gathering stave	O
The ocean lay in a sullen swoon	N
With a moveless monotonous murmured croon	N
Like the moaning of a slave	O
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Sudden with masterful angry blare	P
It howled from the watery west	E
The storm was up he had left his lair	P
The night would be no jest	E
He turned a lady sat in his chair	P
Through her loose dim robe her arm came bare	P
And it lay across her breast	E
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She sat a white queen on a ruined throne	I
A lily bowed with blight	Q
In her eyes the darkness about was blown	I
By flashes of liquid light	Q
Her skin with very whiteness shone	I
Back from her forehead loosely thrown	I
Her hair was dusk as night	Q
	-
Wet wet it hung and wept like weeds	R
Down her pearly shoulders bare	P
The pale drops glistened like diamond beads	R
Caught in a silken snare	P
As the silver filmy husk to its seeds	R
Her dank robe clings and but half recedes	R
Her form so shadowy fair	P
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Doubting she gazed in his wondering face	S
Wonder his utterance ties	M
She searches like one in forgetful case	S
For something within his eyes	M
For something that love holds ever in chase	S
For something that is and has no place	S
But away in the thinking lies	M
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Speechless he ran brought a wrap of wool	T
And a fur that with down might vie	U
Listless into the gathering pool	V
She dropped them and let them lie	U
He piled the hearth with fagots so full	T
That the flames as if from the log of Yule	V
Up the chimney went roaring high	U
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Then she spoke and lovely to heart and ear	W
Was her voice though broke by pain	L
Afar it sounded though sweet and clear	X
As if from out of the rain	L
As if from out of the night wind drear	X
It came like the voice of one in fear	X
Lest she should no welcome gain	L
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I am too far off to feel the cold	Y
Too cold to feel the fire	X
It cannot get through the heap of mould	Y
That soaks in the drip from the spire	X
Cerement of wax 'neath cloth of gold	Y
'Neath fur and wool in fold on fold	Y
Freezes in frost so dire	X
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Her voice and her eyes and her cheek so white	Q
Thrilled him through heart and brain	L
Wonder and pity and love unite	Q
In a passion of bodiless pain	L
Her beauty possessed him with strange delight	Q
He was out with her in the live wan night	Q
With her in the blowing rain	L
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Sudden she rose she kneeled she flung	F
Her loveliness at his feet	Z
I am tired of being blown and swung	F
In the rain and the snow and the sleet	Z
But better no rest than stillness among	F
Things whose names would defile my tongue	F
How I hate the mouldy sheet	Z
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Ah though a ghost I'm a lady still	A2
The youth recoiled aghast	B2
Her eyes grew wide and pale and chill	A2
With a terror that surpassed	B2
He caught her hand a freezing thrill	A2
Stung to his wrist but with steadfast will	A2
He held it warm and fast	B2
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What can I do to save thee dear	X
At the word she sprang upright	Q
On tiptoe she stood he bent his ear	X
She whispered whispered light	Q
She withdrew she gazed with an asking fear	X
Like one that looks on his lady's bier	X
He stood with a face ghost white	Q
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Six times in vain oh hapless maid	C2
I have humbled myself to sue	D2
This is the last as the sunset decayed	C2
Out with the twilight I grew	D2
And about the city flitted and strayed	C2
A wandering lonely forsaken shade	C2
No one saw me but you	D2
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He shivered he shook he had turned to clay	E2
Vile fear had gone into his blood	F2
His face was a dismal ashy gray	E2
Through his heart crept slime and mud	F2
The lady stood in a still dismay	E2
She drooped she shrank she withered away	E2
Like a half blown frozen bud	F2
	-
Speak once more Am I frightful then	G2
I live though they call it death	H2
I am only cold Say dear again	G2
But scarce could he heave a breath	H2
Over a dank and steaming fen	G2
He floated astray from the world of men	G2
A lost half conscious wraith	H2
	-
Ah 'tis the last time Save me Her cry	X
Entered his heart and lay	E2
But he loved the sunshine the golden sky	X
And the ghosts' moonlight is gray	E2
As feverous visions flit and fly	X
And without a motion elude the eye	X
She stood three steps away	E2
	-
But oh her eyes refusal base	S
Those live soul stars had slain	L
Frozen eyes in an icy face	S
They had grown Like a ghost of the brain	L
Beside the lattice thought moved in space	S
She stood with a doleful despairing grace	S
The fire burned clanged the rain	L
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Faded or fled she had vanished quite	Q
The loud wind sank to a sigh	X
Pale faces without paled the face of night	Q
Sweeping the window by	X
Some to the glass pressed a cheek of fright	Q
Some shot a gleam of decaying light	Q
From a flickering uncertain eye	X
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Whence did it come from the sky or the deep	I2
That faint long cadenced wail	J2
From the closing door of the down way steep	I2
His own bosom or out of the gale	J2
From the land where dead dreams or dead maidens sleep	I2
Out of every night to come will creep	I2
That cry his heart to quail	J2
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The clouds had broken the wind was at rest	E
The sea would be still ere morn	K2
The moon had gone down behind its breast	E
Save the tip of one blunt horn	K2
Was that the ghost angel without a nest	E
Across the moonset far in the west	E
That thin white vapour borne	K2
	-
He turned from the lattice the fire lit room	L2
With its ghost forsaken chair	X
Was cold and drear as a rifled tomb	L2
Shameful and dreamless and bare	X
Filled it was with his own soul's gloom	L2
With the sense of a traitor's merited doom	L2
With a lovely ghost's despair	X
	-
He had driven a lady and lightly clad	M2
Out in the stormy cold	Y
Was she a ghost Divinely sad	M2
Are the people of Hades old	Y
A wandering ghost Oh self care bad	M2
Caitiff and craven and cowering which had	M2
Refused her an earthly fold	Y
	-
Ill had she fared his lovely guest	E
A passion of wild self blame	N2
Tore the heart that failed in the test	E
With a thousand hooks of shame	N2
Bent his proud head on his heaving breast	E
Shore the plume from his ancient crest	E
Puffed at his ancient name	N2
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He sickened with scorn of a fallen will	A2
With love and remorse he wept	O2
He sank and kissed her footprints chill	A2
And the track by her garment swept	O2
He kneeled by her chair all ice cold still	A2
Dropped his head in it moaned until	A2
For weariness he slept	O2
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He slept until the flaming sun	G
Laughed at the by gone dark	P2
A frightful dream but the night is done	G
He said and I hear the lark	P2
All day he held out with the evening gun	G
A booming terror his brain did stun	G
And Doubt the jackal gan bark	P2
	-
Followed the lion Conviction fast	B2
And the truth no dream he knew	D2
Night after night raved the conscience blast	B2
But stilled as the morning grew	D2
When seven slow moons had come and passed	B2
His self reproach aside he cast	B2
And the truth appeared untrue	D2
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A lady fair old story vile	K
Would make his heart her boast	Q2
In the growing glamour of her smile	K
He forgot the lovely ghost	Q2
Forgot her for bitterness wrapt in wile	K
For the lady was false as a crocodile	K
And her heart was a cave of frost	R2
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Then the cold white face with its woe divine	A
Came back in the hour of sighs	M
Not always with comfort to those that pine	A
The dear true faces arise	M
He yearned for her dreamed of her prayed for a sign	A
He wept for her pleading voice and the shine	A
Of her solitary eyes	M
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With thy face so still which I made so sad	M2
Ah me which I might have wooed	S2
Thou holdest my heart in a love not glad	M2
Sorrowful shame subdued	S2
Come to me lady in pardon clad	M2
Come to my dreams white Aidead	M2
For on thee all day I brood	M2
	-
She came not He sought her in churchyards old	M2
In churchyards by the sea	T2
And in many a church when the midnight tolled	M2
And the moon shone eerily	T2
Down to the crypt he crept grown bold	M2
Sat all night in the dead men's cold	M2
And called to her never came she	T2
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Praying forgiveness more and more	X
And her love at any cost	M2
Pining and sighing and longing sore	X
He grew like a creature lost	M2
Thin and spectral his body wore	X
He faded out at the ghostly door	X
And was himself a ghost	M2
	-
But if he found the lady then	G2
So sorrowfully lost	M2
For lack of the love 'mong earthly men	G2
That was ready to brave love's cost	M2
I know not till I drop my pen	G2
Wander away from earthly ken	G2
And am myself a ghost	M2