Tim Bluster's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHII FFJJ KKFF LLBB MMNN FFJJ OPQQ RRJJ STUU| 'Twas a place of fifty acres in a lonely neighborhood | A |
| And near a grove of somber pines the shackly farm house stood | A |
| And all the folks for miles around did solemnly declare | B |
| That ghosts and goblins horrible held nightly revel there | B |
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| They said the house was hanted and that not a man alive | C |
| In all the country round about could own the place and thrive | C |
| That the cattle died with fever and the hogs the cholera took | D |
| And every one that tried it wore a mighty troubled look | D |
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| But they put it up at auction and Tim Bluster bid the most | E |
| Who always said There want no hants nor any kind of ghost | E |
| That ever walked a graveyard in the middle of the night | F |
| Could make his nerves unsteady or could fill him with affright | F |
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| So Tim got full possession and he moved out to his home | G |
| And the first night as he sat there within his room alone | H |
| The door was softly opened and a cat came walking in | I |
| With eyes like balls of fire and a coat as black as sin | I |
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| Then squatting on its haunches it said in tones polite | F |
| There seems to be but two of us to stay in here to night | F |
| Tim muttered in a trembling voice as for the door he run | J |
| Perhaps you think there will be two but darn me there's but one | J |
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| Tim staid away the blessed night but when the daylight came | K |
| It brought him back his courage and it filled him full of shame | K |
| And then he said unto himself There wasn't any cat | F |
| Could make him leave that room again he'd bet his life on that | F |
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| So when the shades of evening fell Tim double barred the door | L |
| And took precautions that perhaps he hadn't night before | L |
| And felt quite sure that nothing now could gain admittance there | B |
| And peacefully he dozed and slept a sitting in his chair | B |
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| Then all at once he roused himself and opening wide his eyes | M |
| Beheld a figure standing there that made his hair arise | M |
| Like quills upon a porcupine and froze his heart with fear | N |
| And headless though it was it spoke and said in accents clear | N |
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| There seems to be but two of us to stay in here to night | F |
| Tim made a bound and took with him the sash and every light | F |
| And then he jumped a nine rail fence and down the road he spun | J |
| And said Perhaps he thinks there's two but darn me there's but one | J |
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| 'Twas seven miles before he stopped and sat down on a log | O |
| To catch his breath and rest awhile from his nocturnal jog | P |
| And then he turned his head around and right before his face | Q |
| The figure stood and said to him I think we've had a race | Q |
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| Tim tried to speak and not a word he found to utter then | R |
| But as he jumped from off his seat and broke away again | R |
| He spluttered out I know we have but think it's not quite done | J |
| For you can bet right now's the time we'll have another one | J |
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| Away Tim flew he left the road and through the woods and fields | S |
| The pace he set was wonderful the ghost right at his heels | T |
| And that old house is tenantless and slowly rotting down | U |
| Since that dread night Tim had his dream and moved right back to town | U |
George W. Doneghy
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