Mary's Ghost. - A Pathetic Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJK LMNM OMPM QHRH STHT UMVM WXYX MBHB WZA2Z B2MC2Q| 'Twas in the middle of the night | A |
| To sleep young William tried | B |
| When Mary's ghost came stealing in | C |
| And stood at his bedside | B |
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| O William dear O William dear | D |
| My rest eternal ceases | E |
| Alas my everlasting peace | F |
| Is broken into pieces | G |
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| I thought the last of all my cares | H |
| Would end with my last minute | I |
| But though I went to my long home | J |
| I didn't stay long in it | K |
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| The body snatchers they have come | L |
| And made a snatch at me | M |
| It's very hard them kind of men | N |
| Won't let a body be | M |
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| You thought that I was buried deep | O |
| Quite decent like and chary | M |
| But from her grave in Mary bone | P |
| They've come and boned your Mary | M |
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| The arm that used to take your arm | Q |
| Is took to Dr Vyse | H |
| And both my legs are gone to walk | R |
| The hospital at Guy's | H |
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| I vowed that you should have my hand | S |
| But fate gives us denial | T |
| You'll find it there at Dr Bell's | H |
| In spirits and a phial | T |
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| As for my feet the little feet | U |
| You used to call so pretty | M |
| There's one I know in Bedford Row | V |
| The t'other's in the City | M |
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| I can't tell where my head is gone | W |
| But Doctor Carpue can | X |
| As for my trunk it's all packed up | Y |
| To go by Pickford's van | X |
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| I wish you'd go to Mr P | M |
| And save me such a ride | B |
| I don't half like the outside place | H |
| They've took for my inside | B |
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| The cock it crows I must be gone | W |
| My William we must part | Z |
| But I'll be yours in death altho' | A2 |
| Sir Astley has my heart | Z |
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| Don't go to weep upon my grave | B2 |
| And think that there I be | M |
| They haven't left an atom there | C2 |
| Of my anatomie | Q |
Thomas Hood
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