The Phantom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DED FDFD FGCG HIHI JIKD LMNO PQRQ SLTL UVCV WVWV XIGI YIZI A2TB2T C2CD2B E2F2FE2F G2H2I2G2 CJ2E2J2 CK2L2M2 E2F2G2F2 CN2AI2 O2P2Q2P2 Q2H2E2H2 R2DS2D ITT2D'Upstairs in the large closet child | A |
This side the blue room door | B |
Is an old Bible bound in leather | C |
Standing upon the floor | B |
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'Go with this taper bring it me | D |
Carry it on your arm | E |
It is the book on many a sea | D |
Hath stilled the waves' alarm ' | - |
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Late the hour dark the night | F |
The house is solitary | D |
Feeble is a taper's light | F |
To light poor Ann to see | D |
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Her eyes are yet with visions bright | F |
Of sylph and river flower and fay | G |
Now through a narrow corridor | C |
She takes her lonely way | G |
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Vast shadows on the heedless walls | H |
Gigantic loom stoop low | I |
Each little hasty footfall calls | H |
Hollowly to and fro | I |
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In the dim solitude her heart | J |
Remembers tearlessly | I |
White winters when her mother was | K |
Her loving company | D |
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Now in the dark clear glass she sees | L |
A taper mocking hers | M |
A phantom face of light blue eyes | N |
Reflecting phantom fears | O |
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Around her loom the vacant rooms | P |
Wind the upward stairs | Q |
She climbs on into a loneliness | R |
Only her taper shares | Q |
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Her grandmother is deaf with age | S |
A garden of moonless trees | L |
Would answer not though she should cry | T |
In anguish on her knees | L |
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So that she scarcely heeds so fast | U |
Her pent up heart doth beat | V |
When faint along the corridor | C |
Falleth the sound of feet | V |
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Sounds lighter than silk slippers make | W |
Upon a ballroom floor when sweet | V |
Violin and 'cello wake | W |
Music for twirling feet | V |
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O in an old unfriendly house | X |
What shapes may not conceal | I |
Their faces in the open day | G |
At night abroad to steal | I |
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Even her taper seems with fear | Y |
To languish small and blue | I |
Far in the woods the winter wind | Z |
Runs whistling through | I |
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A dreadful cold plucks at each hair | A2 |
Her mouth is stretched to cry | T |
But sudden with a gush of joy | B2 |
It narrows to a sigh | T |
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It is a wilding child which comes | C2 |
Swift through the corridor | C |
Singing an old forgotten song | D2 |
This ancient burden bore | B |
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'Thorn thorn I wis | E2 |
And roses twain | F2 |
A red rose and a white | F |
Stoop in the blossom bee and kiss | E2 |
A lonely child good night | F |
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'Swim fish sing bird | G2 |
And sigh again | H2 |
I that am lost am lone | I2 |
Bee in the blossom never stirred | G2 |
Locks hid beneath a stone ' | - |
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Her eye was of the azure fire | C |
That hovers in wintry flame | J2 |
Her raiment wild and yellow as furze | E2 |
That spouteth out the same | J2 |
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And in her hand she bore no flower | C |
But on her head a wreath | K2 |
Of faded flag flowers that did yet | L2 |
Smell sweetly after death | M2 |
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Clear was the light of loveliness | E2 |
That lit her face like rain | F2 |
And sad the mouth that uttered | G2 |
Her immemorial strain | F2 |
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Gloomy with night the corridor | C |
Is now that she is gone | N2 |
Albeit this solitary child | A |
No longer seems alone | I2 |
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Fast though her taper dwindles down | O2 |
Heavy and thick the tome | P2 |
A beauty beyond fear to dim | Q2 |
Haunts now her alien home | P2 |
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Ghosts in the world malignant grim | Q2 |
Vex many a wood and glen | H2 |
And house and pool the unquiet ghosts | E2 |
Of dead and restless men | H2 |
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But in her grannie's house this spirit | R2 |
A child as lone as she | D |
Pining for love not found on earth | S2 |
Ann dreams again to see | D |
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Seated upon her tapestry stool | I |
Her fairy book laid by | T |
She gazes in the fire knowing | T2 |
She hath sweet company | D |
Walter De La Mare
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