The Haunted House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGGFGBBHH AIJIJIKIILIKMNMN AOPOOPPQRQQRAAR FSTSSTTSSU FVVWWXYVZVUI | A |
The shadows sit and stand about its door | B |
Like uninvited guests and poor | C |
And all the long hot summer day | D |
The grating locust dins its roundelay | E |
In one old sycamore | B |
The squirrel leaves upon its rotting roof | F |
In empty hulls its tracks | G |
And in its clapboard cracks | G |
The spider weaves a windy woof | F |
Its cells the mud wasp packs | G |
The she fox whelps upon its floor | B |
The owlet roosts above its door | B |
And where the musty mosses run | H |
The freckled snake basks in the sun | H |
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II | A |
The children of what fathers sleep | I |
Beneath these melancholy pines | J |
The slow slugs crawl among their graves where creep | I |
The doddered poison vines | J |
The orchard near the meadow deep | I |
Lifts up decrepit arms | K |
Gray lichened in a withering heap | I |
No sap swells up to make it leap | I |
As once in calms and storms | L |
No blossom lulls its age asleep | I |
Each breeze brings sad alarms | K |
Big bell round pears and apples russet red | M |
No maiden gathers now | N |
The worm bored trunks weep gum like tears instead | M |
From each decaying bough | N |
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III | A |
The woodlands around it are solitary | O |
And fold it like gaunt hands | P |
The sunlight is sad and the moonlight is dreary | O |
And the hum of the country is weary so weary | O |
And the bees go by in bands | P |
To other lovelier lands | P |
The grasses are rotting in walk and in bower | Q |
The lonesomeness dank and rank | R |
As a chamber where lies for a lonely hour | Q |
An old man's corpse with many a flower | Q |
Is hushed and blank | R |
And even the birds have passed it by | A |
To sing their songs to a happier sky | A |
A happier sky and bank | R |
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IV | F |
In its desolate halls are lying | S |
Gold blood red and browned | T |
Drifted leaves of summer dying | S |
And the winds above them sighing | S |
Turn them round and round | T |
Make a ghostly sound | T |
As of footsteps failing flying | S |
Voices through the chambers crying | S |
Of the haunted house | U |
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V | F |
Gazing down in her white shroud | V |
Shroud of windy cloud | V |
Comes at night the phantom moon | W |
Comes and all the shadows soon | W |
Crowding in the rooms arouse | X |
Shadows ghosts her rays lead on | Y |
Till beneath the cloud | V |
Like a ghost she's gone | Z |
In her gusty shroud | V |
O'er the haunted house | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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