The Forest Of Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEEDFGFGFHIIHJK LKJMAAMNONPNQRRQASCS CTMMTQUQUQNVVWEXEYEZ A2B2ZNC2NC2NC2YYW| Deep in the hush of a mighty wood | A |
| I came to a place of dread and dream | B |
| And forms of shadows whose shapes elude | C |
| The searching swords of the sun's dim gleam | B |
| Builders of silence and solitude | C |
| And there where a glimmering water crept | D |
| From rock to rock with a slumberous sound | E |
| Tired to tears on the mossy ground | E |
| Under a tree I lay and slept | D |
| Was it the heart of an olden oak | F |
| Was it the soul of a flower that died | G |
| Or was it the wildrose there that spoke | F |
| The wilding lily that palely sighed | G |
| For all on a sudden it seemed I awoke | F |
| And the leaves and the flowers were all intent | H |
| On a visible something of light and bloom | I |
| A presence felt as a wild perfume | I |
| Or beautiful music that came and went | H |
| And all the grief I had known was gone | J |
| And all the anguish of heart and soul | K |
| And the burden of care that had made me wan | L |
| Lifted and left me strong and whole | K |
| As once in the flush of my youth's dead dawn | J |
| And lo it was night And the oval moon | M |
| A silvery silence paced the wood | A |
| And there in its light like snow she stood | A |
| As starry still as a star aswoon | M |
| At first I thought that I looked into | N |
| A shadowy water of violet | O |
| Where the faint reflection of one I knew | N |
| Long dead gazed up from its mirror wet | P |
| Till she smiled in my face as the living do | N |
| Till I felt her touch and heard her say | Q |
| In a voice as still as a rose unfolds | R |
| 'You have come at last and now nothing holds | R |
| Give me your hand let us wander away | Q |
| 'Let us wander away through the Shadow Wood | A |
| Through the Shadow Wood to the Shadow Land | S |
| Where the trees have speech and the blossoms brood | C |
| Like visible music and hand in hand | S |
| The winds and the waters go rainbow hued | C |
| Where ever the voice of beauty sighs | T |
| And ever the dance of dreams goes on | M |
| Where nothing grows old and the dead and gone | M |
| And the loved and lost smile into your eyes | T |
| 'Let us wander away let us wander away | Q |
| Do you hear them calling 'Come here and live' | U |
| Do you hear what the trees and the flowers say | Q |
| Wonderful wild and imperative | U |
| Hushed as the hues of the dawn of day | Q |
| They say 'Your life that was rose and rue | N |
| In a world of shadows where all things die | V |
| Where beauty is dust and love a lie | V |
| Is finished Come here we are waiting for you '' | W |
| And she took my hand and the trees around | E |
| Seemed whispering something I dared not hear | X |
| And the taciturn flowers that strewed the ground | E |
| Seemed thinking something I felt with fear | Y |
| A beautiful something that made no sound | E |
| And she led me on through the forest old | Z |
| Where the moon and the midnight stood on guard | A2 |
| Sentinel spirits that shimmered the sward | B2 |
| Silver and sable and glimmering gold | Z |
| And then in an instant I knew I knew | N |
| What the trees had whispered the winds had said | C2 |
| What the flowers had thought in their hearts of dew | N |
| And the stars had syllabled overhead | C2 |
| And she bent above me and smiled ' 'T is true | N |
| Heart of my heart you have heard aright | C2 |
| Look in my eyes and draw me near | Y |
| Look in my eyes and have no fear | Y |
| Heart of my heart you died to night ' | W |
Madison Julius Cawein
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