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Ghosts. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFFFGHIHIJJJK LLLKMNONPPPCQQQD

They look in with dim eyesA
And faces sweet and sadB
Upon the life that diesA
Shades who have hadB
Their part in all things hereC
The mortal hope and fearD
Till as now from the bierC
But one removeE
They hark the still hours chimeF
Within the Tower of TimeF
As to the sad sweet rhymeF
Of life and loveG
They see more than we knowH
They hear more than we mayI
Who ever come and goH
Like stars on a cloudy wayI
And they grow sad to kenJ
The mortal life of menJ
In the vesper light againJ
As they look inK
And feel the phantom thrillL
Of all the good and illL
Of love and beauty stillL
And pain and sinK
And then with faces wanM
They to each other turnN
Dreaming of what is goneO
E'en as they yearnN
Perchance to lift the veilP
With fingers thin and paleP
Showing the no availP
Of so much hereC
And how all things are castQ
As in a dream at lastQ
When the future as the pastQ
Shall disappearD

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