Ghosts. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFFFGHIHIJJJK LLLKMNONPPPCQQQD| They look in with dim eyes | A |
| And faces sweet and sad | B |
| Upon the life that dies | A |
| Shades who have had | B |
| Their part in all things here | C |
| The mortal hope and fear | D |
| Till as now from the bier | C |
| But one remove | E |
| They hark the still hours chime | F |
| Within the Tower of Time | F |
| As to the sad sweet rhyme | F |
| Of life and love | G |
| They see more than we know | H |
| They hear more than we may | I |
| Who ever come and go | H |
| Like stars on a cloudy way | I |
| And they grow sad to ken | J |
| The mortal life of men | J |
| In the vesper light again | J |
| As they look in | K |
| And feel the phantom thrill | L |
| Of all the good and ill | L |
| Of love and beauty still | L |
| And pain and sin | K |
| And then with faces wan | M |
| They to each other turn | N |
| Dreaming of what is gone | O |
| E'en as they yearn | N |
| Perchance to lift the veil | P |
| With fingers thin and pale | P |
| Showing the no avail | P |
| Of so much here | C |
| And how all things are cast | Q |
| As in a dream at last | Q |
| When the future as the past | Q |
| Shall disappear | D |
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