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
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About The Forest Of Fear
The Forest Of Fear is a poem by Madison Julius Cawein. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about The Forest Of Fear poem by Madison Julius Cawein
Best Poems of Madison Julius Cawein