The Forest Of Dreams. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDEDDE A DCDCFGFGHIJI A DCDCCKLKLMKMI | A |
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Where was I last Friday night | B |
Within the forest of dark dreams | C |
Following the blur of a goblin light | B |
That led me over ugly streams | C |
Whereon the scum of the spawn was spread | D |
And the blistered slime in stagnant seams | C |
Where the weed and the moss swam black and dead | D |
Like a drowned girl's hair in the ropy ooze | E |
And the jack o' lantern light that led | D |
Flickered the fox fire trees o'erhead | D |
And the owl like things at airy cruise | E |
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II | A |
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Where was I last Friday night | D |
Within the forest of dark dreams | C |
Following a form of shadowy white | D |
With my own wild face it seems | C |
Did a raven's wing just flap my hair | F |
Or a web winged bat brush by my face | G |
Or the hand of something I did not dare | F |
Look round to see in that obscene place | G |
Where the boughs with leaves a devil's dance | H |
And the thorn tree bush where the wind made moan | I |
Had more than a strange significance | J |
Of life and of evil not their own | I |
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III | A |
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Where was I last Friday night | D |
Within the forest of dark dreams | C |
Seeing the mists rise left and right | D |
Like the leathery fog that heaves and steams | C |
From the rolling horror of Hell's red streams | C |
While the wind that tossed in the tattered tree | K |
And danced alone with the last mad leaf | L |
Or was it the wind kept whispering me | K |
Now bury it here with its own black grief | L |
And its eyes of fire you can not brave | M |
And in the darkness I seemed to see | K |
My own self digging my soul a grave | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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