Night Burial In The Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGHII JDJDJGJGGGGG CCKK LLMMJNJ| Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair | A |
| Fain was he for life here lies he low | B |
| With the blood washed clean from his brow and his beautiful hair | A |
| Lay him here in the dell where the orchids grow | B |
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| Let the birch bark torches roar in the gloom | C |
| And the trees crowd up in a quiet startled ring | D |
| So lone is the land that in this lonely room | C |
| Never before has breathed a human thing | D |
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| Cover him well in his canvas shroud and the moss | E |
| Part and heap again on his quiet breast | F |
| What recks he now of gain or love or loss | E |
| Who for love gained rest | F |
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| While she who caused it all hides her insolent eyes | G |
| Or braids her hair with the ribbons of lust and of lies | G |
| And he who did the deed fares out like a hunted beast | H |
| To lurk where the musk ox tramples the barren ground | I |
| Where the stroke of his coward heart is the only sound | I |
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| Haunting the tamarac shade | J |
| Hear them up thronging | D |
| Memories foredoomed | J |
| Of strife and of longing | D |
| Haggard or bright | J |
| By the tamaracs and birches | G |
| Where the red torch light | J |
| Trembles and searches | G |
| The wilderness teems | G |
| With inscrutable eyes | G |
| Of ghosts that are dreams | G |
| Commingled with memories | G |
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| Leave him here in his secret ferny tomb | C |
| Withdraw the little light from the ocean of gloom | C |
| He who feared nought will fear aught never | K |
| Left alone in the forest forever and ever | K |
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| Then as we fare on our way to the shore | L |
| Sudden the torches cease to roar | L |
| For cleaving the darkness remote and still | M |
| Comes a wind with a rushing harp like thrill | M |
| The sound of wings hurled and furled and unfurled | J |
| The wings of the Angel who gathers the souls from the wastes of | N |
| the world | J |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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