The Haunted Chamber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKAK GLML INON PQIR PSTS| Each heart has its haunted chamber | A |
| Where the silent moonlight falls | B |
| On the floor are mysterious footsteps | C |
| There are whispers along the walls | B |
| - | |
| And mine at times is haunted | D |
| By phantoms of the Past | E |
| As motionless as shadows | F |
| By the silent moonlight cast | E |
| - | |
| A form sits by the window | G |
| That is not seen by day | H |
| For as soon as the dawn approaches | I |
| It vanishes away | H |
| - | |
| It sits there in the moonlight | J |
| Itself as pale and still | K |
| And points with its airy finger | A |
| Across the window sill | K |
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| Without before the window | G |
| There stands a gloomy pine | L |
| Whose boughs wave upward and downward | M |
| As wave these thoughts of mine | L |
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| And underneath its branches | I |
| Is the grave of a little child | N |
| Who died upon life's threshold | O |
| And never wept nor smiled | N |
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| What are ye O pallid phantoms | P |
| That haunt my troubled brain | Q |
| That vanish when day approaches | I |
| And at night return again | R |
| - | |
| What are ye O pallid phantoms | P |
| But the statues without breath | S |
| That stand on the bridge overarching | T |
| The silent river of death | S |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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