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Forest History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in	B
Heroic who came out for round them hung	C
A wavering phantom's red volcano tongue	C
With league long lizard tail and fishy fin	B
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II	A
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Old Earth's original Dragon there retired	D
To his last fastness overthrown by few	E
Him a laborious thrust of roadway slew	E
Then man to play devorant straight was fired	F
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III	A
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More intimate became the forest fear	G
While pillared darkness hatched malicious life	H
At either elbow wolf or gnome or knife	H
And wary slid the glance from ear to ear	I
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IV	H
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In chillness like a clouded lantern ray	J
The forest's heart of fog on mossed morass	K
On purple pool and silky cotton grass	K
Revealed where lured the swallower byway	J
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V	H
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Dead outlook flattened back with hard rebound	L
Off walls of distance left each mounted height	M
It seemed a giant hag fiend churning spite	M
Of humble human being held the ground	L
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VI	H
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Through friendless wastes through treacherous woodland slow	N
The feet sustained by track of feet pursued	O
Pained steps and found the common brotherhood	P
By sign of Heaven indifferent Nature foe	N
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VII	N
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Anon a mason's work amazed the sight	M
And long frocked men called Brothers there abode	Q
They pointed up bowed head and dug and sowed	R
Whereof was shelter loaf and warm firelight	R
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VIII	N
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What words they taught were nails to scratch the head	R
Benignant works explained the chanting brood	R
Their monastery lit black solitude	R
As one might think a star that heavenward led	R
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IX	K
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Uprose a fairer nest for weary feet	R
Like some gold flower nightly inward curled	R
Where gentle maidens fled a roaring world	R
Or played with it and had their white retreat	R
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X	K
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Into big books of metal clasps they pored	R
They governed even as men they welcomed lays	K
The treasures women are whose aim is praise	K
Was shown in them the Garden half restored	R
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XI	K
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A deluge billow scoured the land off seas	K
With widened jaws and slaughter was its foam	S
For food for clothing ambush refuge home	S
The lesser savage offered bogs and trees	K
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XII	K
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Whence reverence round grey haired story grew	E
And inmost spots of ancient horror shone	T
As temples under beams of trials bygone	U
For in them sang brave times with God in view	E
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XIII	K
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Till now trim homesteads bordered spaces green	V
Like night's first little stars through clearing showers	K
Was rumoured how a castle's falcon towers	K
The wilderness commanded with fierce mien	V
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XIV	E
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Therein a serious Baron stuck his lance	K
For minstrel songs a beauteous Dame would pout	R
Gay knights and sombre felon or devout	R
Pricked onward bound for their unsung romance	K
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XV	E
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It might be that two errant lords across	K
The block of each came edged and at sharp cry	H
They charged forthwith the better man to try	H
One rode his way one couched on quiet moss	K
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XVI	E
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Perchance a lady sweet whose lord lay slain	W
The robbers into gruesome durance drew	E
Swift should her hero come like lightning's blue	E
She prayed for him as crackling drought for rain	W
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XVII	E
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As we that ere the worst her hero haps	K
Of Angels guided nigh that loathly den	X
A toady cave beside an ague fen	X
Where long forlorn the lone dog whines and yaps	K
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XVIII	E
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By daylight now the forest fear could read	R
Itself and at new wonders chuckling went	R
Straight for the roebuck's neck the bowman spent	R
A dart that laughed at distance and at speed	R
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XIX	K
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Right loud the bugle's hallali elate	R
Rang forth of merry dingles round the tors	K
And deftest hand was he from foreign wars	K
But soon he hailed the home bred yeoman mate	R
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XX	K
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Before the blackbird pecked the turf they woke	Y
At dawn the deer's wet nostrils blew their last	R
To forest haunt of runs and prime repast	R
With paying blows the yokel strained his yoke	Y
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XXI	K
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The city urchin mooned on forest air	Z
On grassy sweeps and flying arrows thick	A2
As swallows o'er smooth streams and sighed him sick	A2
For thinking that his dearer home was there	Z
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XXII	K
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Familiar still unseized the forest sprang	B2
An old world echo like no mortal thing	C2
The hunter's horn might wind a jocund ring	C2
But held in ear it had a chilly clang	B2
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XXIII	K
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Some shadow lurked aloof of ancient time	D2
Some warning haunted any sound prolonged	R
As though the leagues of woodland held them wronged	R
To hear an axe and see a township climb	D2
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XXIV	E
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The forest's erewhile emperor at eve	E
Had voice when lowered heavens drummed for gales	K
At midnight a small people danced the dales	K
So thin that they might dwindle through a sieve	E
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XXV	E
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Ringed mushrooms told of them and in their throats	K
Old wives that gathered herbs and knew too much	E2
The pensioned forester beside his crutch	E2
Struck showers from embers at those bodeful notes	K
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XXVI	E
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Came then the one all ear all eye all heart	R
Devourer and insensibly devoured	R
In whom the city over forest flowered	R
The forest wreathed the city's drama mart	R
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XXVII	E
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There found he in new form that Dragon old	R
From tangled solitudes expelled and taught	R
How blindly each its antidote besought	R
For either's breath the needs of either told	R
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XXVIII	E
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Now deep in woods with song no sermon's drone	T
He showed what charm the human concourse works	K
Amid the press of men what virtue lurks	K
Where bubble sacred wells of wildness lone	T
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XXIX	K
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Our conquest these if haply we retain	W
The reverence that ne'er will overrun	F2
Due boundaries of realms from Nature won	F2
Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane	W