The Haunted House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGGFGBBHH AIJIJIKIILIKMNMN AOPOOPPQRQQRAAR FSTSSTTSSU FVVWWXYVZVU

IA
The shadows sit and stand about its doorB
Like uninvited guests and poorC
And all the long hot summer dayD
The grating locust dins its roundelayE
In one old sycamoreB
The squirrel leaves upon its rotting roofF
In empty hulls its tracksG
And in its clapboard cracksG
The spider weaves a windy woofF
Its cells the mud wasp packsG
The she fox whelps upon its floorB
The owlet roosts above its doorB
And where the musty mosses runH
The freckled snake basks in the sunH
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IIA
The children of what fathers sleepI
Beneath these melancholy pinesJ
The slow slugs crawl among their graves where creepI
The doddered poison vinesJ
The orchard near the meadow deepI
Lifts up decrepit armsK
Gray lichened in a withering heapI
No sap swells up to make it leapI
As once in calms and stormsL
No blossom lulls its age asleepI
Each breeze brings sad alarmsK
Big bell round pears and apples russet redM
No maiden gathers nowN
The worm bored trunks weep gum like tears insteadM
From each decaying boughN
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IIIA
The woodlands around it are solitaryO
And fold it like gaunt handsP
The sunlight is sad and the moonlight is drearyO
And the hum of the country is weary so wearyO
And the bees go by in bandsP
To other lovelier landsP
The grasses are rotting in walk and in bowerQ
The lonesomeness dank and rankR
As a chamber where lies for a lonely hourQ
An old man's corpse with many a flowerQ
Is hushed and blankR
And even the birds have passed it byA
To sing their songs to a happier skyA
A happier sky and bankR
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IVF
In its desolate halls are lyingS
Gold blood red and brownedT
Drifted leaves of summer dyingS
And the winds above them sighingS
Turn them round and roundT
Make a ghostly soundT
As of footsteps failing flyingS
Voices through the chambers cryingS
Of the haunted houseU
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VF
Gazing down in her white shroudV
Shroud of windy cloudV
Comes at night the phantom moonW
Comes and all the shadows soonW
Crowding in the rooms arouseX
Shadows ghosts her rays lead onY
Till beneath the cloudV
Like a ghost she's goneZ
In her gusty shroudV
O'er the haunted houseU

Madison Julius Cawein



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