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Ghasta Or, The Avenging Demon!!! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Hark the owlet flaps her wing	A
In the pathless dell beneath	B
Hark night ravens loudly sing	A
Tidings of despair and death	C
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Horror covers all the sky	D
Clouds of darkness blot the moon	E
Prepare for mortal thou must die	D
Prepare to yield thy soul up soon	E
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Fierce the tempest raves around	F
Fierce the volleyed lightnings fly	D
Crashing thunder shakes the ground	F
Fire and tumult fill the sky	D
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Hark the tolling village bell	G
Tells the hour of midnight come	H
Now can blast the powers of Hell	G
Fiend like goblins now can roam	I
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See his crest all stained with rain	J
A warrior hastening speeds his way	K
He starts looks round him starts again	L
And sighs for the approach of day	K
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See his frantic steed he reins	M
See he lifts his hands on high	D
Implores a respite to his pains	M
From the powers of the sky	D
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He seeks an Inn for faint from toil	N
Fatigue had bent his lofty form	O
To rest his wearied limbs awhile	P
Fatigued with wandering and the storm	O
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Slow the door is opened wide	Q
With trackless tread a stranger came	R
His form Majestic slow his stride	Q
He sate nor spake nor told his name	R
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Terror blanched the warrior's cheek	S
Cold sweat from his forehead ran	T
In vain his tongue essayed to speak	S
At last the stranger thus began	T
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'Mortal thou that saw'st the sprite	U
Tell me what I wish to know	V
Or come with me before 'tis light	U
Where cypress trees and mandrakes grow	V
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'Fierce the avenging Demon's ire	W
Fiercer than the wintry blast	X
Fiercer than the lightning's fire	Y
When the hour of twilight's past'	X
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The warrior raised his sunken eye	D
It met the stranger's sullen scowl	Z
'Mortal Mortal thou must die '	-
In burning letters chilled his soul	A2
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WARRIOR	Y
Stranger whoso'er you are	B2
I feel impelled my tale to tell	G
Horrors stranger shalt thou hear	C2
Horrors drear as those of Hell	G
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O'er my Castle silence reigned	X
Late the night and drear the hour	Y
When on the terrace I observed	X
A fleeting shadowy mist to lower	Y
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Light the cloud as summer fog	D2
Which transient shuns the morning beam	E2
Fleeting as the cloud on bog	D2
That hangs or on the mountain stream	E2
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Horror seized my shuddering brain	J
Horror dimmed my starting eye	D
In vain I tried to speak In vain	J
My limbs essayed the spot to fly	D
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At last the thin and shadowy form	O
With noiseless trackless footsteps came	R
Its light robe floated on the storm	O
Its head was bound with lambent flame	R
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In chilling voice drear as the breeze	F2
Which sweeps along th' autumnal ground	X
Which wanders through the leafless trees	F2
Or the mandrake's groan which floats around	X
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'Thou art mine and I am thine	G2
'Till the sinking of the world	X
I am thine and thou art mine	G2
'Till in ruin death is hurled	X
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'Strong the power and dire the fate	X
Which drags me from the depths of Hell	G
Breaks the tomb's eternal gate	X
Where fiendish shapes and dead men yell	G
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'Haply I might ne'er have shrank	H2
From flames that rack the guilty dead	X
Haply I might ne'er have sank	H2
On pleasure's flowery thorny bed	X
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'But stay no more I dare disclose	I2
Of the tale I wish to tell	G
On Earth relentless were my woes	I2
But fiercer are my pangs in Hell	G
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'Now I claim thee as my love	J2
Lay aside all chilling fear	K2
My affection will I prove	L2
Where sheeted ghosts and spectres are	B2
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'For thou art mine and I am thine	G2
'Till the dreaded judgement day	X
I am thine and thou art mine	G2
Night is past I must away '	-
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Still I gazed and still the form	O
Pressed upon my aching sight	X
Still I braved the howling storm	O
When the ghost dissolved in night	X
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Restless sleepless fled the night	X
Sleepless as a sick man s bed	X
When he sighs for morning light	X
When he turns his aching head	X
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Slow and painful passed the day	X
Melancholy seized my brain	J
Lingering fled the hours away	X
Lingering to a wretch in pain	J
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At last came night ah horrid hour	Y
Ah chilling time that wakes the dead	X
When demons ride the clouds that lower	Y
The phantom sat upon my bed	X
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In hollow voice low as the sound	X
Which in some charnel makes its moan	M2
What floats along the burying ground	X
The phantom claimed me as her own	M2
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Her chilling finger on my head	X
With coldest touch congealed my soul	A2
Cold as the finger of the dead	X
Or damps which round a tombstone roll	A2
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Months are passed in lingering round	X
Every night the spectre comes	N2
With thrilling step it shakes the ground	X
With thrilling step it round me roams	O2
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Stranger I have told to thee	P2
All the tale I have to tell	G
Stranger canst thou tell to me	P2
How to scape the powers of Hell	G
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STRANGER	Y
Warrior I can ease thy woes	I2
Wilt thou wilt thou come with me	P2
Warrior I can all disclose	I2
Follow follow follow me	P2
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Yet the tempest's duskiest wing	A
Its mantle stretches o'er the sky	D
Yet the midnight ravens sing	A
'Mortal Mortal thou must die '	-
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At last they saw a river clear	K2
That crossed the heathy path they trod	X
The Stranger s look was wild and drear	K2
The firm Earth shook beneath his nod	X
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He raised a wand above his head	X
He traced a circle on the plain	J
In a wild verse he called the dead	X
The dead with silent footsteps came	R
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A burning brilliance on his head	X
Flaming filled the stormy air	K2
In a wild verse he called the dead	X
The dead in motley crowd were there	K2
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'Ghasta Ghasta come along	Q2
Bring thy fiendish crowd with thee	P2
Quickly raise th' avenging Song	Q2
Ghasta Ghasta come to me '	-
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Horrid shapes in mantles gray	K2
Flit athwart the stormy night	X
'Ghasta Ghasta come away	K2
Come away before 'tis light '	-
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See the sheeted Ghost they bring	A
Yelling dreadful o er the heath	B
Hark the deadly verse they sing	A
Tidings of despair and death	C
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The yelling Ghost before him stands	R2
See she rolls her eyes around	X
Now she lifts her bony hands	R2
Now her footsteps shake the ground	X
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STRANGER	K2
Phantom of Theresa say	K2
Why to earth again you came	R
Quickly speak I must away	K2
Or you must bleach for aye in flame	R
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PHANTOM	H
Mighty one I know thee now	S2
Mightiest power of the sky	D
Know thee by thy flaming brow	S2
Know thee by thy sparkling eye	D
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That fire is scorching Oh I came	R
From the caverned depth of Hell	G
My fleeting false Rodolph to claim	R
Mighty one I know thee well	G
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STRANGER	K2
Ghasta seize yon wandering sprite	X
Drag her to the depth beneath	B
Take her swift before 'tis light	X
Take her to the cells of death	C
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Thou that heardst the trackless dead	X
In the mouldering tomb must lie	D
Mortal look upon my head	X
Mortal Mortal thou must die	D
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Of glowing flame a cross was there	K2
Which threw a light around his form	O
Whilst his lank and raven hair	K2
Floated wild upon the storm	O
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The warrior upwards turned his eyes	T2
Gazed upon the cross of fire	K2
There sat horror and surprise	T2
There sat God s eternal ire	K2
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A shivering through the Warrior flew	U2
Colder than the nightly blast	X
Colder than the evening dew	U2
When the hour of twilight s past	X
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Thunder shakes th' expansive sky	D
Shakes the bosom of the heath	B
'Mortal Mortal thou must die'	X
The warrior sank convulsed in death	C
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JANUARY	P2