Haunters Of The Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| There are haunters of the silence ghosts that hold the heart and brain | A |
| I have sat with them and hearkened I have talked with them in vain | A |
| I have shuddered from their coming yet have run to meet them there | B |
| And have cursed them and have blessed them and have loved them to despair | B |
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| At my door I see their shadows in my walks I meet their ghosts | C |
| Where I often hear them weeping or sweep by in withered hosts | C |
| Perished dreams gone like the roses crumbling by like autumn leaves | D |
| Phantoms of old joys departed that the spirit eye perceives | D |
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| Oft at night they sit beside me fix their eyes upon my face | E |
| Demon eyes that burn and hold me in whose deeps my heart can trace | E |
| All the past and where a passion as in Hell the ghosts go by | F |
| Turns an anguished face toward me with a love that cannot die | F |
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| In the night time in the darkness in the blackness of the storm | G |
| Round my fireplace there they gather flickering form on shadowy form | G |
| In the daytime in the noontide in the golden sunset glow | H |
| On the hilltops in the forests I have met them walking slow | H |
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| There are haunters of the silence ghosts that hold the brain and heart | I |
| In the mansion of my being they have placed a room apart | I |
| There I hear their spectre raiment see their shadows on the floor | J |
| Where the raven Sorrow darkens Love's pale image o'er my door | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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