Old Ghosts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAABBBBCCDDDDEE BBBBDDFFFG| CLOVE SPICY pinks and phlox that fill the sense | A |
| With drowsy indolence | A |
| And in the evening skies | A |
| Interior splendor pregnant with surprise | A |
| As if in some new wise | A |
| The full moon soon would rise | A |
| Hung with the crimson aigrets of its seeds | A |
| The purple monkshood bleeds | A |
| The dewy crickets chirr | B |
| And everywhere are lights of lavender | B |
| And scents of musk and myrrh | B |
| To guide the foot of her | B |
| She passes like a misty glimmer on | C |
| To where the rose blooms wan | C |
| A twilight moth in flight | D |
| As in the west its streak of chrysolite | D |
| The dusk erases quite | D |
| And ushers in the night | D |
| And now another shadow passes slow | E |
| With firefly light a glow | E |
| The scent of a cigar | B |
| And two who kiss beneath the evening star | B |
| Where in a moonbeam bar | B |
| A whippoorwill cries afar | B |
| Again the tale is told that has been told | D |
| So often here of old | D |
| Ghosts of dead lovers they | F |
| Or memories only of some perished day | F |
| Old ghosts no time shall lay | F |
| That haunt the place alway | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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