The Ghost Of Deacon Brown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBB BBDEEDFF GGGAHHIIA JJKLLKK AAMNNM OO| In a backwoods town | A |
| Lived Deacon Brown | A |
| And he was a miser old | B |
| He would trust no bank | C |
| So he dug and sank | C |
| In the ground a box of gold | B |
| Down deep in the ground a box of gold | B |
| - | |
| He hid his gold | B |
| As has been told | B |
| He remembered that he did it | D |
| But sad to say | E |
| On the very next day | E |
| He forgot just where he hid it | D |
| To find his gold he tried and tried | F |
| Till he grew faint and sick and died | F |
| - | |
| Then on each dark and gloomy night | G |
| A form in phosphorescent white | G |
| A genuine hair raising sight | G |
| Would wander through the town | A |
| And as it slowly roamed around | H |
| With a spade it dug each foot of ground | H |
| So the folks about | I |
| Said there was no doubt | I |
| 'Twas the ghost of Deacon Brown | A |
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| Around the church | J |
| This Ghost would search | J |
| And whenever it would see | K |
| The passers by | L |
| Take wings and fly | L |
| It would laugh in ghostly glee | K |
| Hee hee it would laugh in ghostly glee | K |
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| And so the town | A |
| Went quickly down | A |
| For they said that it was haunted | M |
| And doors and gates | N |
| So the story states | N |
| Bore a notice Tenants wanted | M |
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| And the town is now for let | O |
| But the ghost is digging yet | O |
James Weldon Johnson
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