The Forest Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEECFFCGGGHHH IJCKKCLLCMMCNNNNCOO| 'Tis said that when | A |
| The hands of men | A |
| Tamed this primeval wood | B |
| And hoary trees with groans of wo | C |
| Like warriors by an unknown foe | C |
| Were in their strength subdued | D |
| The virgin Earth | E |
| Gave instant birth | E |
| To springs that ne'er did flow | C |
| That in the sun | F |
| Did rivulets run | F |
| And all around rare flowers did blow | C |
| The wild rose pale | G |
| Perfumed the gale | G |
| And the queenly lily adown the dale | G |
| Whom the sun and the dew | H |
| And the winds did woo | H |
| With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew | H |
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| So when in tears | I |
| The love of years | J |
| Is wasted like the snow | C |
| And the fine fibrils of its life | K |
| By the rude wrong of instant strife | K |
| Are broken at a blow | C |
| Within the heart | L |
| Do springs upstart | L |
| Of which it doth now know | C |
| And strange sweet dreams | M |
| Like silent streams | M |
| That from new fountains overflow | C |
| With the earlier tide | N |
| Of rivers glide | N |
| Deep in the heart whose hope has died | N |
| Quenching the fires its ashes hide | N |
| Its ashes whence will spring and grow | C |
| Sweet flowers ere long | O |
| The rare and radiant flowers of song | O |
Edgar Allan Poe
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