A Ghost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKLMNO PQRBASTBUEVW XICYBZGA2B2C2D2E2F2C IG2 H2I2J2K2| Ghosts walk the Earth that rise not from the grave | A |
| The Dead Past hath its living dead We see | B |
| All suddenly at times and shudder then | C |
| Their faces pale and sad accusing eyes | D |
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| Last night within the crowded street I saw | E |
| A Phantom from the Past with pallid face | F |
| And hollow eyes and pale cold lips and hair | G |
| Faded from that imperial hue of gold | H |
| Which was my pride in days that are no more | I |
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| That pallid face I knew in its young bloom | J |
| A radiant lily with a rose flushed heart | K |
| Most beautiful a vision of delight | L |
| And seeing it again so changed so changed | M |
| I felt as if the icy hand of Death | N |
| Had touched my forehead and his voice said Come | O |
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| Ah pale cold lips that once were rosy red | P |
| Lips I have kissed on golden afternoons | Q |
| Past past and gone and gone beyond recall | R |
| Breathing low vows beside the summer sea | B |
| Vows broken like the breaking of a wave | A |
| Ah faded hair whose curls I have caressed | S |
| And sworn the least of them was dearer far | T |
| Than all the wealth of all the world to me | B |
| Ah hollow haunting eyes within whose depths | U |
| Flower like and star like once my Fate I saw | E |
| Or thought I saw is there not any way | V |
| To call back from its grave the Buried Past | W |
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| Dear Though my vows to thee were all for sworn | X |
| Too well too late I know I loved thee more | I |
| Than mine own life a life in death since then | C |
| Yet shall I nevermore in all the days | Y |
| And all the lives to come if lives there be | B |
| Beyond this life beyond the weary earth | Z |
| Kiss thee again upon the lips and hair | G |
| And call thee by the old caressing names | A2 |
| And feel thy true heart beating against mine | B2 |
| That was so false and would too late be true | C2 |
| For neither passionate prayer nor burning tears | D2 |
| Nor incantations that might rend the rocks | E2 |
| Nor all the powers of hell nor God Himself | F2 |
| May raise the Buried Past to life again | C |
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| For thou that wert art not dead evermore | I |
| Dead evermore too that which once was I | G2 |
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| What exorcism will lay these haunting ghosts | H2 |
| None but a draught of the Lethean stream | I2 |
| Who drinks therefrom shall all things soon forget | J2 |
| Himself forgetting too the greatest good | K2 |
Victor James Daley
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