The Ghosts' High Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDD EFGFHDED IJKJLDED| When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls and the bat in the | A |
| moonlight flies | B |
| And inky clouds like funeral shrouds sail over the midnight skies | B |
| When the footpads quail at the night bird's wail and black dogs | C |
| bay the moon | D |
| Then is the spectres' holiday then is the ghosts' high noon | D |
| - | |
| As the sob of the breeze sweeps over the trees and the mists lie | E |
| low on the fen | F |
| From grey tombstones are gathered the bones that once were women | G |
| and men | F |
| And away they go with a mop and a mow to the revel that ends too | H |
| soon | D |
| For cockcrow limits our holiday the dead of the night's high | E |
| noon | D |
| - | |
| And then each ghost with his ladye toast to their churchyard beds | I |
| take flight | J |
| With a kiss perhaps on her lantern chaps and a grisly grim good | K |
| night | J |
| Till the welcome knell of the midnight bell rings forth its | L |
| jolliest tune | D |
| And ushers our next high holiday the dead of the night's high | E |
| noon | D |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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