The Churchwarden And The Apparition: A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJKFF LLMMNNOOPP| The night was cold the wind was high | A |
| And stars bespangled all the sky | A |
| Churchwarden Joe had laid him down | B |
| And slept secure on bed of down | B |
| But still the pleasing hope of gain | C |
| That never left his active brain | C |
| Exposed the churchyard to his view | D |
| That seat of treasure wholly new | D |
| Pull down that cross he quickly cried | E |
| The mason instantly complied | E |
| When lo behold the golden prize | F |
| Appears joy sparkles in his eyes | F |
| The door now creaks the window shakes | G |
| With sudden fear he starts and wakes | G |
| Quaking and pale in eager haste | H |
| His haggard eyes around he cast | I |
| A ghastly phantom lean and wan | J |
| That instant rose and thus began | K |
| Weak wretch to think to blind my eyes | F |
| Hypocrisy's a thin disguise | F |
| Your humble mien and fawning tongue | L |
| Have oft deceived the old and young | L |
| On this side now and now on that | M |
| The very emblem of the bat | M |
| Whatever part you take we know | N |
| 'Tis only interest makes it so | N |
| And though with sacred zeal you burn | O |
| Religion's only for your turn | O |
| I'm Conscience called Joe greatly feared | P |
| The lightning flashed it disappeared | P |
Thomas Chatterton
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