The Old Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCC DEDECFCGC| Over the water an old ghost strode | A |
| To a churchyard on the shore | B |
| And over him the waters had flowed | A |
| A thousand years or more | B |
| And pale and wan and weary | C |
| Looked never a sprite as he | C |
| For it's lonely and it's dreary | C |
| The ghost of a body to be | C |
| That has mouldered away in the sea | C |
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| Over the billows the old ghost stepped | D |
| And the winds in mockery sung | E |
| For the bodiless ghost would fain have wept | D |
| Over the maiden that lay so young | E |
| 'Mong the thistles and toadstools so hoary | C |
| And he begged of the waves a tear | F |
| But they shook upwards their moonlight glory | C |
| And the shark looked on with a sneer | G |
| At his yearning desire and agony | C |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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