The Creaking Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCCDEEFGGGHIIHAA ACEECJKJ| COME in old Ghost of all that used to be | A |
| You find me old | B |
| And love grown cold | B |
| And fortune fled to younger company | A |
| Departed as the glory of the day | C |
| With friends And you it seems have come to stay | C |
| 'T is time to pray | C |
| Come sit with me here at Life's creaking door | D |
| All comfortless | E |
| Think nay then guess | E |
| What was the one thing eh that made me poor | F |
| The love of beauty that I could not bind | G |
| My dream of truth or faith in humankind | G |
| But never mind | G |
| All are departed now with love and youth | H |
| Whose stay was brief | I |
| And left but grief | I |
| And gray regret two jades who tell the truth | H |
| Whose children memories of things to be | A |
| And things that failed within my heart ah me | A |
| Cry constantly | A |
| None can turn time back and no man delay | C |
| Death when he knocks | E |
| What good are clocks | E |
| Or human hearts to stay for us that day | C |
| When at Life's creaking door we see his smile | J |
| Death's at the door of this old House of Trial | K |
| Old Ghost let's wait awhile | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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