Haunted Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LCLC LLLL MNMN OPOP LLLLAll houses wherein men have lived and died | A |
Are haunted houses Through the open doors | B |
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide | A |
With feet that make no sound upon the floors | B |
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We meet them at the door way on the stair | C |
Along the passages they come and go | D |
Impalpable impressions on the air | C |
A sense of something moving to and fro | D |
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There are more guests at table than the hosts | E |
Invited the illuminated hall | F |
Is thronged with quiet inoffensive ghosts | E |
As silent as the pictures on the wall | F |
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The stranger at my fireside cannot see | G |
The forms I see nor hear the sounds I hear | H |
He but perceives what is while unto me | G |
All that has been is visible and clear | I |
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We have no title deeds to house or lands | J |
Owners and occupants of earlier dates | K |
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands | J |
And hold in mortmain still their old estates | K |
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The spirit world around this world of sense | L |
Floats like an atmosphere and everywhere | C |
Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense | L |
A vital breath of more ethereal air | C |
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Our little lives are kept in equipoise | L |
By opposite attractions and desires | L |
The struggle of the instinct that enjoys | L |
And the more noble instinct that aspires | L |
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These perturbations this perpetual jar | M |
Of earthly wants and aspirations high | N |
Come from the influence of an unseen star | M |
An undiscovered planet in our sky | N |
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And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud | O |
Throws o'er the sea a floating bridge of light | P |
Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd | O |
Into the realm of mystery and night | P |
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So from the world of spirits there descends | L |
A bridge of light connecting it with this | L |
O'er whose unsteady floor that sways and bends | L |
Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss | L |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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