Haunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHI JJKKFFLM NOCCPPQC| The rabbit in his burrow keeps | A |
| No guarded watch in peace he sleeps | A |
| The wolf that howls into the night | B |
| Cowers to her lair at morning light | B |
| The simplest bird entwines a nest | C |
| Where she may lean her lovely breast | C |
| Couched in the silence of the bough | D |
| But thou O man what rest hast thou | D |
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| The deepest solitude can bring | E |
| Only a subtler questioning | E |
| In thy divided heart thy bed | F |
| Recalls at dawn what midnight said | F |
| Seek how thou wilt to feign content | G |
| Thy flaming ardour's quickly spent | G |
| Soon thy last company is gone | H |
| And leaves thee with thyself alone | I |
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| Pomp and great friends may hem thee round | J |
| A thousand busy tasks be found | J |
| Earth's thronging beauties may beguile | K |
| Thy longing lovesick heart awhile | K |
| And pride like clouds of sunset spread | F |
| A changing glory round thy head | F |
| But fade will all and thou must come | L |
| Hating thy journey homeless home | M |
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| Rave how thou wilt unmoved remote | N |
| That inward presence slumbers not | O |
| Frets out each secret from thy breast | C |
| Gives thee no rally pause nor rest | C |
| Scans close thy very thoughts lest they | P |
| Should sap his patient power away | P |
| Answers thy wrath with peace thy cry | Q |
| With tenderest taciturnity | C |
Walter De La Mare
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