A Forest Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBB DEFEGGEE HEHEIIEE JKJKLLKK BDBDMMDD| There is a place I search for still | A |
| Sequestered as the world of dreams | B |
| A bushy hollow and a hill | A |
| That whispers with descending streams | B |
| Cool careless waters wandering down | C |
| Like Innocence who runs to town | C |
| Leaving the wildwood and its dreams | B |
| And prattling like the forest streams | B |
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| But still in dreams I meet again | D |
| The child who bound me heart and hand | E |
| And led me with a wildflower chain | F |
| Far from our world to Faeryland | E |
| Who made me see and made me know | G |
| The lovely Land of Long Ago | G |
| Leading me with her little hand | E |
| Into the world of Wonderland | E |
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| The years have passed how far away | H |
| The day when there I met the child | E |
| The little maid who was a fay | H |
| Whose eyes were dark and undefiled | E |
| And crystal as a woodland well | I |
| That holds within its depths a spell | I |
| Enchantments featured like a child | E |
| A dream a poetry undefiled | E |
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| Around my heart she wrapped her hair | J |
| And bound my soul with lips and eyes | K |
| And led me to a cavern where | J |
| Grey Legend dwelt in kingly guise | K |
| Her kinsman dreamier than the moon | L |
| Who called her Fancy read her rune | L |
| And bade her with paternal eyes | K |
| Divest herself of her disguise | K |
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| And still I walk with her in dreams | B |
| Though many years have passed since then | D |
| And that high hill and its wild streams | B |
| Are lost as is that faery glen | D |
| And as the years go swiftly by | M |
| I find it harder when I try | M |
| To meet with her who led me then | D |
| Into the wildness of that glen | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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