Ghosts Of A Lunatic Asylum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDC EFGF HIHI| Here where men's eyes were empty and as bright | A |
| As the blank windows set in glaring brick | B |
| When the wind strengthens from the sea and night | A |
| Drops like a fog and makes the breath come thick | B |
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| By the deserted paths the vacant halls | C |
| One may see figures twisted shades and lean | D |
| Like the mad shapes that crawl an Indian screen | D |
| Or paunchy smears you find on prison walls | C |
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| Turn the knob gently There's the Thumbless Man | E |
| Still weaving glass and silk into a dream | F |
| Although the wall shows through him and the Khan | G |
| Journeys Cathay beside a paper stream | F |
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| A Rabbit Woman chitters by the door | H |
| Chilly the grave smell comes from the turned sod | I |
| Come lift the curtain and be cold before | H |
| The silence of the eight men who were God | I |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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