The Ghost Of The Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCBCB DDDEFEFE GGHIIIII JJJKJKJL IIIAMAMA| We two kept house the Past and I | A |
| The Past and I | A |
| I tended while it hovered nigh | A |
| Leaving me never alone | B |
| It was a spectral housekeeping | C |
| Where fell no jarring tone | B |
| As strange as still a housekeeping | C |
| As ever has been known | B |
| - | |
| As daily I went up the stair | D |
| And down the stair | D |
| I did not mind the Bygone there | D |
| The Present once to me | E |
| Its moving meek companionship | F |
| I wished might ever be | E |
| There was in that companionship | F |
| Something of ecstasy | E |
| - | |
| It dwelt with me just as it was | G |
| Just as it was | G |
| When first its prospects gave me pause | H |
| In wayward wanderings | I |
| Before the years had torn old troths | I |
| As they tear all sweet things | I |
| Before gaunt griefs had torn old troths | I |
| And dulled old rapturings | I |
| - | |
| And then its form began to fade | J |
| Began to fade | J |
| Its gentle echoes faintlier played | J |
| At eves upon my ear | K |
| Than when the autumn's look embrowned | J |
| The lonely chambers here | K |
| The autumn's settling shades embrowned | J |
| Nooks that it haunted near | L |
| - | |
| And so with time my vision less | I |
| Yea less and less | I |
| Makes of that Past my housemistress | I |
| It dwindles in my eye | A |
| It looms a far off skeleton | M |
| And not a comrade nigh | A |
| A fitful far off skeleton | M |
| Dimming as days draw by | A |
Thomas Hardy
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