Low Barometer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPQP| The south wind strengthens to a gale | A |
| Across the moon the clouds fly fast | B |
| The house is smitten as with a flail | A |
| The chimney shudders to the blast | B |
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| On such a night when Air has loosed | C |
| Its guardian grasp on blood and brain | D |
| Old terrors then of god or ghost | E |
| Creep from their caves to life again | F |
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| And Reason kens he herits in | G |
| A haunted house Tenants unknown | H |
| Assert their squalid lease of sin | G |
| With earlier title than his own | H |
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| Unbodied presences the packed | I |
| Pollution and remorse of Time | J |
| Slipped from oblivion re enact | I |
| The horrors of unhousehold crime | J |
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| Some men would quell the thing with prayer | K |
| Whose sightless footsteps pad the floor | L |
| Whose fearful trespass mounts the stair | K |
| Or burst the locked forbidden door | L |
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| Some have seen corpses long interred | M |
| Escape from hallowing control | N |
| Pale charnel forms nay even have heard | M |
| The shrilling of a troubled soul | N |
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| That wanders till the dawn has crossed | O |
| The dolorous dark or Earth has wound | P |
| Closer her storm spread cloak and thrust | Q |
| The baleful phantoms underground | P |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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