The Haunted Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLMLM NOPOQRQR MSMSTUTU VWVWXYXZ A2B2AB2C2D2C2D2 E2XE2XBCBF2 G2H2G2H2XYXZ| Its casements' diamond disks of glass | A |
| Stare myriad on a terrace old | B |
| Where urns unkempt with ragged grass | A |
| Foam o'er with frothy cold | B |
| The snow rounds o'er each stair of stone | C |
| The frozen fount is hooped with pearl | D |
| Down desolate walks like phantoms lone | C |
| Thin powd'ry snow wreaths whirl | D |
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| And to each rose tree's stem that bends | E |
| With silver snow combs glued with frost | F |
| It seems each summer rosebud sends | E |
| Its airy scentless ghost | G |
| The stiff Elizabethan pile | H |
| Chatters with cold thro' all its panes | I |
| And rumbling down each chimney file | H |
| The mad wind shakes his reins | I |
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| Lone in the Northern angle dim | J |
| With immemorial dust it lay | K |
| Where each gaunt casement's stony rim | J |
| Stared lidless to the day | K |
| Drear in the Northern angle hung | L |
| With olden arras dusky where | M |
| Tall shadowy Tristrams fought and sung | L |
| For shadowy Isolds fair | M |
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| Lies by a dingy cabinet | N |
| A tarnished lute upon the floor | O |
| A talon footed chair is set | P |
| Grotesquely by the door | O |
| A carven testered bedstead stands | Q |
| With rusty silks draped all about | R |
| And like a moon in murky lands | Q |
| A mirror glitters out | R |
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| Dark in the Northern angle where | M |
| In musty arras eats and clings | S |
| The drowsy moth and frightened there | M |
| The wild wind sighs and sings | S |
| Adown the roomy flue and takes | T |
| And swings the ghostly mirror till | U |
| It shrieks and creaks then pulls and shakes | T |
| The curtains with a will | U |
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| A starving mouse forever gnaws | V |
| Behind a polished panel dark | W |
| And 'long the floor its shadow draws | V |
| A poplar in the park | W |
| I have been there when blades of light | X |
| Stabbed each dull stained and dusty pane | Y |
| I have been there at dead of night | X |
| But never will again | Z |
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| She grew upon my vision as | A2 |
| Heat sucked from the dry summer sod | B2 |
| In taffetas as green as grass | A |
| Silent and faint she trod | B2 |
| And angry jewels winked and frowned | C2 |
| In serpent coils on neck and wrist | D2 |
| And 'round her dainty waist was wound | C2 |
| A zone of silver mist | D2 |
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| And icy fair as some bleak land | E2 |
| Her pale still face stormed o'er with night | X |
| Of raven tresses and her hand | E2 |
| Was beautiful and white | X |
| Before the ebon mirror old | B |
| Full tearfully she made her moan | C |
| And then a cock crew far and cold | B |
| I looked and she was gone | F2 |
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| As if had come a sullying breath | G2 |
| And from the limpid mirror passed | H2 |
| Her presence past like some near death | G2 |
| Leaving my blood aghast | H2 |
| Tho' I've been there when blades of light | X |
| Stabbed each dull stained and dusty pane | Y |
| Tho' I've been there at dead of night | X |
| I never will again | Z |
Madison Julius Cawein
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