The Haunted Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB BBDEED FFBGGB FFABBA HHBIIB JJKBBK LLABBA MMKIIK| It stands alone on a haunted shore | A |
| With curious words of deathless lore | A |
| On its massive gate impearled | B |
| And its carefully guarded mystic key | C |
| Locks in its silent mystery | C |
| From the seeking eyes of the world | B |
| - | |
| Oft do its stately walls repeat | B |
| Echoes of music wildly sweet | B |
| Swelling to gladness high | D |
| With mournful ballads of ancient time | E |
| And funeral hymns and a nursery rhyme | E |
| Dying away in a sigh | D |
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| Pictures out of each haunted room | F |
| Up through the ghostly shadows loom | F |
| And gleam with a spectral light | B |
| Pictures lit with a radiant glow | G |
| And some that image such desolate woe | G |
| That weeping you turn from the sight | B |
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| Shining like stars in the twilight gloom | F |
| Brows as white as a lily's bloom | F |
| Gleam from its lattice and door | A |
| And voices soft as a seraph's note | B |
| Through its mysterious chambers float | B |
| Back from eternity's shore | A |
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| In the mournful silence of midnight air | H |
| You hear on its stately and winding stair | H |
| The echoes of fairy feet | B |
| Gentle footsteps that lightly fall | I |
| Through the enchanted castle hall | I |
| And up in the golden street | B |
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| And still in a dark forsaken tower | J |
| Crowned with a withered cypress flower | J |
| Is a bowed head turned away | K |
| A face like carved marble white | B |
| Sweet eyes drooping away from the light | B |
| Shunning the eye of day | K |
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| And oft when the light burns low and dim | L |
| A haggard form ungainly and grim | L |
| Unbidden enters the door | A |
| With chiding eyes whose burning light | B |
| You fain would bury in darkness and night | B |
| Never to meet you more | A |
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| Mysteries strange its still walls keep | M |
| Strange are the forms that through it sweep | M |
| Walking by night and by day | K |
| But evermore will the castle hall | I |
| Echo their footsteps' phantom fall | I |
| Till its walls shall crumble away | K |
Marietta Holley
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