The Ghost Of Roger Casement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF GF GGHGGGIG GF GGJGKELE EF MNENOEPE EF| O what has made that sudden noise | A |
| What on the threshold stands | B |
| It never crossed the sea because | C |
| John Bull and the sea are friends | D |
| But this is not the old sea | E |
| Nor this the old seashore | F |
| What gave that roar of mockery | E |
| That roar in the sea's roar | F |
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| The ghost of Roger Casement | G |
| Is beating on the door | F |
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| John Bull has stood for Parliament | G |
| A dog must have his day | G |
| The country thinks no end of him | H |
| For he knows how to say | G |
| At a beanfeast or a banquet | G |
| That all must hang their trust | G |
| Upon the British Empire | I |
| Upon the Church of Christ | G |
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| The ghost of Roger Casement | G |
| Is beating on the door | F |
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| John Bull has gone to India | G |
| And all must pay him heed | G |
| For histories are there to prove | J |
| That none of another breed | G |
| Has had a like inheritance | K |
| Or sucked such milk as he | E |
| And there's no luck about a house | L |
| If it lack honesty | E |
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| The ghost of Roger Casement | E |
| Is beating on the door | F |
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| I poked about a village church | M |
| And found his family tomb | N |
| And copied out what I could read | E |
| In that religious gloom | N |
| Found many a famous man there | O |
| But fame and virtue rot | E |
| Draw round beloved and bitter men | P |
| Draw round and raise a shout | E |
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| The ghost of Roger Casement | E |
| Is beating on the door | F |
William Butler Yeats
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