The Forest Of Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDDEFEEFGHGHH IEIEEJDJDDKLKLMENENN OIOIPQRQSRFTFITTTTTT UEPPE| The cut throat darkness hemmed me 'round | A |
| I waited helpless in its grasp | B |
| The forest gave no sign or sound | A |
| The wind was dead no insect's rasp | B |
| I heard nor water's gulp and gasp | B |
| Fitting its strength against a stone | C |
| The only sound that there was made | D |
| Was my wild heart's that sobbed alone | C |
| Knowing itself to be afraid | D |
| Of that vast wood where it had strayed | D |
| I dared not move There was no star | E |
| To indicate where God might be | F |
| Night and his henchmen without bar | E |
| Had there assumed their empery | E |
| Nothing but prayer was left to me | F |
| Around me seemed to loom the dead | G |
| Of ages past gaunt in the gloom | H |
| And when I heard a stealthy tread | G |
| As of one groping from the tomb | H |
| I braced myself to meet my doom | H |
| And then I heard a breathing low | I |
| As of a beast that seeks its prey | E |
| And then the footstep soft and slow | I |
| Approached again from far away | E |
| I held my breath lest it betray | E |
| Me to some Death in monstrous guise | J |
| With fang or talon or a blade | D |
| Grasped in a hand of giant size | J |
| Or was't a fiend And then I prayed | D |
| Who never yet had prayed for aid | D |
| I closed my eyes My heart was still | K |
| I did not look I knew it stood | L |
| Glaring upon me all its fill | K |
| When would it strike The ancient wood | L |
| Seemed waiting eager for my blood | M |
| I prayed and prayed The something there | E |
| Stood waiting still a fiend from Hell | N |
| Gloating upon my soul's despair | E |
| This was the end I knew too well | N |
| It pealed within me like a bell | N |
| And then I thought 'In spite of all | O |
| It is but death Earth can not go | I |
| Further than death whate'er befall | O |
| With open eyes I'll take the blow | I |
| And face to face now meet my foe ' | P |
| 'My foe ' Perhaps it was a friend | Q |
| What whim put in my heart that thought | R |
| I had no friends This was the end | Q |
| And I would face it I was caught | S |
| In the old gin that sin had wrought | R |
| And then I looked I looked to see | F |
| How could it be serene of eye | T |
| A little Child beneath a tree | F |
| A Child that glimmered starrily | I |
| A Christ like Child not born to die | T |
| And overhead I saw the night' | T |
| Had doffed its cowl of black and stood | T |
| Revealed in azure and in white | T |
| While all the staring solitude | T |
| Looked on the round moon o'er the wood | T |
| I called the Child It smiling came | U |
| Undid the bonds of my despair | E |
| And led me forth I said 'Your name ' | P |
| I t smiled and gazing answered 'Prayer ' | P |
| And with that word went into air | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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