"Sonnet of the Scary - in 13 Lines with a Quiz!."from gloriana casey
Even now, this longest night of fear shrieks
a dandy wail of ghosts in kith and kin!
So gather the horrors ------ monstrous freaks
and all ------ in dead silence terror stalks in!
Usher in secrets of crumbling walls,
and shadows that cut like a pendulum blade!
Add oval portrait ------ where beauty she falls,
muted all beauty in Death's ghastly shade!
A burial casket ------ life within lurks!
A needful and ape-like clue will abide.
Castle door ------ padlocked ------ yet Death takes his perks;
that oblong box ------ holds a secretive bride!
Ravens and man ------ evermore ------ fright's alive!
* If you haven't guessed WHO this poem is about, then spell it out!
Take the 1st letter of the 1st line.
Then the second letter of the 2nd line,
the 3rd letter of the 3rd line, and continue on
until the poem's end with the 13th letter of the 13th line.
