The Haunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE FBGBDEHE IBIBDEDE DBDBJEJE| He does not think that I haunt here nightly | A |
| How shall I let him know | B |
| That whither his fancy sets him wandering | C |
| I too alertly go | B |
| Hover and hover a few feet from him | D |
| Just as I used to do | E |
| But cannot answer his words addressed me | A |
| Only listen thereto | E |
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| When I could answer he did not say them | F |
| When I could let him know | B |
| How I would like to join in his journeys | G |
| Seldom he wished to go | B |
| Now that he goes and wants me with him | D |
| More than he used to do | E |
| Never he sees my faithful phantom | H |
| Though he speaks thereto | E |
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| Yes I accompany him to places | I |
| Only dreamers know | B |
| Where the shy hares show their faces | I |
| Where the night rooks go | B |
| Into old aisles where the past is all to him | D |
| Close as his shade can do | E |
| Always lacking the power to call to him | D |
| Near as I reach thereto | E |
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| What a good haunter I am O tell him | D |
| Quickly make him know | B |
| If he but sigh since my loss befell him | D |
| Straight to his side I go | B |
| And if it be that at night I am stronger | J |
| Go too by day I do | E |
| Please then keep him in gloom no longer | J |
| Even ghosts tend thereto | E |
Thomas Hardy
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