A Ghost Of Yesterday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFFGGHHIIJJA AAKKLLMMNNOOO| THERE is a house beside a way | A |
| Where dwells a ghost of Yesterday | A |
| The old face of a beauty faded | B |
| Looks from its garden and the shaded | C |
| Long walks of locust trees that seem | D |
| Forevermore to sigh and dream | D |
| Keep whispering low a word that's true | E |
| Of shapes that haunt its avenue | E |
| Clad as in days of belle and beau | F |
| Who come and go | F |
| Around its ancient portico | F |
| At first in stock and beaver hat | G |
| With flitting of the moth and bat | G |
| An old man leaning on a cane | H |
| Comes slowly down the locust lane | H |
| Looks at the house then groping goes | I |
| Into the garden where the rose | I |
| Still keeps sweet tryst with moth and moon | J |
| And humming to himself a tune | J |
| 'Lorena' or 'Ben Bolt' we'll say | A |
| Waits bent and gray | A |
| For some fair ghost of Yesterday | A |
| The Yesterday that holds his all | K |
| More real to him than is the wall | K |
| Of mossy stone near which he stands | L |
| Still reaching out for her his hands | L |
| For her the girl who waits him there | M |
| A lace gowned phantom dark of hair | M |
| Whose loveliness still keeps those walks | N |
| And with whose Memory he talks | N |
| Upon his heart her happy head | O |
| So it is said | O |
| The girl now half a century dead | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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