The Fearful Traveller In The Haunted Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HAHA IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR PSPS| Oft do I hear those windows ope | A |
| And shut with dread surprise | B |
| And spirits murmur as they grope | A |
| But break not on the eyes | B |
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| Still fancy spies the winding sheet | C |
| The phantom and the shroud | D |
| And bids the pulse of horror beat | C |
| Throughout my ears aloud | D |
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| Some unknown finger thumps the door | E |
| From one of faltering voice | F |
| Till some one seems to walk the floor | E |
| With an alarming noise | G |
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| The drum of horror holds her sound | H |
| Which will not let me sleep | A |
| When ghastly breezes float around | H |
| And hidden goblins creep | A |
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| Methinks I hear some constant groan | I |
| The din of all the dead | J |
| While trembling thus I lie alone | I |
| Upon this restless bed | J |
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| At length the blaze of morning broke | K |
| On my impatient view | L |
| And truth or fancy told the joke | K |
| And bade the night adieu | L |
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| 'Twas but the noise of prowling rats | M |
| Which ran with all their speed | N |
| Pursued in haste by hungry cats | M |
| Which on the vermin feed | N |
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| Those creatures crumbling off the cheese | O |
| Which on the table lay | P |
| Some cats too quick the rogues to seize | O |
| With rumbling lost their prey | P |
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| Thus man is often his own elf | Q |
| Who makes the night his ghost | R |
| And shrinks with horror from himself | Q |
| Which is to fear the most | R |
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| The cat growl'd as she held her prey | P |
| Which shriek'd with all its might | S |
| And drove she balm of sleep away | P |
| Throughout the live long night | S |
George Moses Horton
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