Phantom Footsteps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECCDCFCCD CGCGCDCD CHCHCDCD| Childish foosteps just behind her | A |
| Softly patter on the green | B |
| Back she glances tears may blind her | A |
| But no little one is seen | B |
| Blanched as by an ill appalling | C |
| Home in terror hastens she | D |
| While a baby voice is calling | C |
| Mother mother wait for me | D |
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| Phantom footsteps hear them | E |
| falling falling falling | C |
| falling falling falling | C |
| Now wherever she may be | D |
| hear footsteps falling | C |
| While a baby voice is | F |
| call calling calling | C |
| ing calling calling | C |
| Mother mother wait for me | D |
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| Sobbing still but never lagging | C |
| Soon she enters the gate | G |
| And before her on the flagging | C |
| Sees the symbols of her fate | G |
| Tiny shoeprints plainly speaking | C |
| Of the salt and foamy sea | D |
| Hark was that the doorhinge creaking | C |
| Mother mother wait for me | D |
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| Half her night is spent in weeping | C |
| Ere she can forget her cares | H |
| Is there not an infant creeping | C |
| Creeping slowly up the stairs | H |
| Venturing thither in her yearning | C |
| Only shadows can she see | D |
| But she hears the cry while turning | C |
| Mother mother wait for me | D |
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