Robert Lee Frost

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Ghost House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCBBC DDEED FFGGF HHIIH JJBBJ

I dwell in a lonely house I knowA
That vanished many a summer agoA
And left no trace but the cellar wallsB
And a cellar in which the daylight fallsB
And the purple stemmed wild raspberries growA
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O'er ruined fences the grape vines shieldC
The woods come back to the mowing fieldC
The orchard tree has grown one copseB
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chopsB
The footpath down to the well is healedC
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I dwell with a strangely aching heartD
In that vanished abode there far apartD
On that disused and forgotten roadE
That has no dust bath now for the toadE
Night comes the black bats tumble and dartD
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The whippoorwill is coming to shoutF
And hush and cluck and flutter aboutF
I hear him begin far enough awayG
Full many a time to say his sayG
Before he arrives to say it outF
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It is under the small dim summer starH
I know not who these mute folk areH
Who share the unlit place with meI
Those stones out under the low limbed treeI
Doubtless bear names that the mosses marH
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They are tireless folk but slow and sadJ
Though two close keeping are lass and ladJ
With none among them that ever singsB
And yet in view of how many thingsB
As sweet companions as might be hadJ

Robert Lee Frost



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