The Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDCD EFFEEGEGE HEEHHEIEI EHHEEEEE J EEJJGKG LMMLLNONO PEEPPEEEE| There's a house across the street | A |
| That nobody goes into | B |
| Say it's haunted yes they do | B |
| Ghosts livethere they say or meet | A |
| Saw one in a winding sheet | A |
| At a window once and took | C |
| To my heels and ran and ran | D |
| Never gave another look | C |
| Till I met a nigger man | D |
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| And I told him And he said | E |
| 'Dat ole house am ha'nted sure | F |
| 'Deed it wuz a ghost a pure | F |
| Sure nuff ghost I am afred | E |
| Better run home git ter bed | E |
| Or he'll kotch yer Lawzy me | G |
| I won't pass dat house ter night | E |
| Onct I pass dar whut'd I see | G |
| Why I seed a walking light | E |
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| 'Yep an' it went up an' down | H |
| Like a fire bug I wuz skeer'd | E |
| Wus'n you wuz An' I heer'd | E |
| Chains a trompin' all aroun' | H |
| An' I laid dar on de groun' | H |
| Skeer'd to def An' den I seed | E |
| Whut'd yer reckon seed my lands | I |
| Seed a skel'ton yarse indeed | E |
| Hulding up two skel'ton hands | I |
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| 'Den I run'd jest like you did | E |
| Ought ter t'ar dat ole house down | H |
| Hit's disgrace ter dis yere town | H |
| Dat's my sintimints an' rid | E |
| Us ob all de ghosts instid | E |
| Ob a letting 'em cavort | E |
| 'Roun' an' skeer folks lef' an' right | E |
| T'ing ter do would be ter start | E |
| Bonfire in it some dark night ' | - |
| Then he turned and went away | J |
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| And I hurried home and told | E |
| Father and he said 'That old | E |
| Negro man has had his say | J |
| Mine I'll have another day | J |
| Come with me now Let us see | G |
| If that ghost of yours now goes | K |
| If it's a reality | G |
| Or a fraud as I suppose ' | - |
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| And he took his walking stick | L |
| And I followed Sure enough | M |
| At the window was that stuff | M |
| Sheet or piece of old bed tick | L |
| Waving in the wind And quick | L |
| In my father went And why | N |
| Heard him laughing and I saw | O |
| That he had the old ghost by | N |
| A long string that he could draw | O |
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| Was n't anything at all | P |
| But an old white window blind | E |
| That the folks had left behind | E |
| In the window of the hall | P |
| Had got loosened from the wall | P |
| And the wind kept flapping it | E |
| I laughed too but was almost | E |
| Just put out a little bit | E |
| Wanted it to be a ghost | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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