Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCDEDEFGHIAAAA JGKGALALAAAAMNMNOPOP| Surely I must have ailed | A |
| On that dark night | A |
| Or my childish courage failed | A |
| Because there was no light | A |
| Or terror must have come | B |
| With his chill wing | C |
| And made my angel dumb | B |
| Or found him slumbering | C |
| Because I could not sleep | D |
| Terror began to wake | E |
| Close at my side to creep | D |
| And sting me like a snake | E |
| And I was afraid of death | F |
| But when I thought of pain | G |
| O language no word hath | H |
| To recall that thought again | I |
| Into my heart fear crawled | A |
| And wreathed close around | A |
| Mortal convulsive cold | A |
| And I lay bound | A |
| Fear set before my eyes | J |
| Unimaginable pain | G |
| Approaching agonies | K |
| Sprang nimbly into my brain | G |
| Just as a thrilling wind | A |
| Plucks every mournful wire | L |
| So terror on my wild mind | A |
| Fingered with ice and fire | L |
| O not death I feared | A |
| But the anguish of the body | A |
| My dizzying passions heard | A |
| Saw my own bosom bloody | A |
| I thought of years of woe | M |
| Moments prolonged to years | N |
| Heard my heart racing so | M |
| Redoubling all those fears | N |
| Yet still I could not cry | O |
| Not a sound the stillness broke | P |
| But the dark stirred and my | O |
| Negligent angel woke | P |
John Frederick Freeman
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