Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI HJHJ KLKL| When I was little | A |
| My life was half fear | B |
| My nerves were as brittle | A |
| As nature may bear | C |
| - | |
| Shapes monstrous would follow | D |
| My footsteps alone | E |
| And night huge and hollow | D |
| Yawned cold as a stone | E |
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| At trifles I started | F |
| For nothing I wept | G |
| And terror departed | F |
| Not all when I slept | G |
| - | |
| Now I've grown older | H |
| My nerves I restrain | I |
| My pulses are colder | H |
| And clearer my brain | I |
| - | |
| Yet still with a shudder | H |
| I drift through the dark | J |
| And fear holds the rudder | H |
| A guiding my bark | J |
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| The world's so enormous | K |
| In multiple whole | L |
| What god can inform us | K |
| It cares for a soul | L |
Gamaliel Bradford
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