A Florida Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Down mildest shores of milk white sand	A
By cape and fair Floridian bay	B
Twixt billowy pines a surf asleep on land	A
And the great Gulf at play	B
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Past far off palms that filmed to nought	A
Or in and out the cunning keys	C
That laced the land like fragile patterns wrought	A
To edge old broideries	C
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The sail sighed on all day for joy	D
The prow each pouting wave did leave	E
All smile and song with sheen and ripple coy	D
Till the dusk diver Eve	E
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Brought up from out the brimming East	A
The oval moon a perfect pearl	F
In that large lustre all our haste surceased	A
The sail seemed fain to furl	F
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The silent steersman landward turned	A
And ship and shore set breast to breast	A
Under a palm wherethrough a planet burned	A
We ate and sank to rest	A
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But soon from sleep's dear death it seemed	A
I rose and strolled along the sea	C
Down silver distances that faintly gleamed	A
On to infinity	C
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Till suddenly I paused for lo	F
A shape from whence I ne'er divined	C
Appeared before me pacing to and fro	F
With head far down inclined	C
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'A wraith' I thought 'that walks the shore	G
To solve some old perplexity '	-
Full heavy hung the draggled gown he wore	G
His hair flew all awry	H
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He waited not as ghosts oft use	C
To be 'dearheaven'd ' and 'oh'd '	-
But briskly said Good evenin' what's the news	C
Consumption After boa'd	C
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Or mebbe you're intendin' of	I
Investments Orange plantin' Pine	J
Hotel or Sanitarium What above	I
This yea'th CAN be your line	J
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Speakin' of sanitariums now	K
Jest look 'ee here my friend	C
I know a little story well I swow	L
Wait till you hear the end	C
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Some year or more ago I s'pose	C
I roamed from Maine to Floridy	C
And see where them Palmettos grows	C
I bought that little key	C
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Cal'latin' for to build right off	M
A c'lossal sanitarium	N
Big surf Gulf breeze Jest death upon a cough	O
I run it high to hum	N
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Well sir I went to work in style	F
Bought me a steamboat loaded it	C
With my hotel pyazers more'n a mile	F
Already framed and fit	C
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Insured 'em fetched 'em safe around	C
Put up my buildin' moored my boat	C
COM plete then went to bed and slept as sound	C
As if I'd paid a note	C
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Now on that very night a squall	F
Cum up from some'eres some bad place	C
An' blowed an' tore an' reared an' pitched an' all	F
I had to run a race	C
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Right out o' bed from that hotel	F
An' git to yonder risin' ground	C
For 'twixt the sea that riz and rain that fell	F
I pooty nigh was drowned	C
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An' thar I stood till mornin' cum	N
Right on yon little knoll of sand	C
FreQUENTly wishin' I had stayed to hum	N
Fur from this tarnal land	C
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When mornin' cum I took a good	C
Long look and well sir sure's I'm ME	N
That boat laid right whar that hotel had stood	C
And HIT sailed out to sea	N
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No I'll not keep you good bye friend	C
Don't think about it much preehaps	N
Your brain might git see sawin' end for end	C
Like them asylum chaps	N
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For here I walk forevermore	H
A tryin' to make it gee	N
How one same wind could blow my ship to shore	H
And my hotel to sea	N
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Chadd's Ford Pennsylvania	P

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