The Haunted Tram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP QEQERSRTTS| Ghosts of The Towers The Grange The Court | A |
| Ghosts of the Castle Keep | B |
| Ghosts of the finicking high life sort | A |
| Are growing a trifle cheap | B |
| But here is a spook of another stamp | C |
| No thin theatrical sham | D |
| But a spectre who fears not dirt nor damp | C |
| He rides on a London tram | D |
| - | |
| By the curious glance of a mortal eye | E |
| He is not seen He's heard | F |
| His steps go a creeping creeping by | E |
| He speaks but a single word | F |
| You may hear his feet you may hear them plain | G |
| For it's odd in a ghost they crunch | H |
| You may hear the whirr of his rattling chain | G |
| And the ting of his ringing punch | H |
| - | |
| The gathering shadows of night fall fast | I |
| The lamps in the street are lit | J |
| To the roof have the eerie footsteps passed | I |
| Where the outside passengers sit | J |
| To the passenger's side has the spectre paced | K |
| For a moment he halts they say | L |
| Then a ring from the punch at the unseen waist | K |
| And the footsteps pass away | L |
| - | |
| That is the tale of the haunted car | M |
| And if on that car you ride | N |
| You won't believe me have journeyed far | M |
| Ere the spectre seeks your side | N |
| Ay all unseen by your seat he'll stand | O |
| And unless it's a wig your hair | P |
| Will rise at the touch of his icy hand | O |
| And the sound of his whispered Fare | P |
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| At the end of the trip when you're getting down | Q |
| And you'll probably simply fly | E |
| Just give the conductor half a crown | Q |
| Ask who is the ghost and why | E |
| And the man will explain with bated breath | R |
| And point you a moral thus | S |
| 'E's a pore young bloke wot wos crushed to death | R |
| By people as fought | T |
| As they didn't ought | T |
| For seats on a crowded bus | S |
P. G. Wodehouse
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