The Forest Of Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEEDFGFGFHIIHJK LKJMAAMNONPNQRRQASCS CTMMTQUQUQNVVWEXEYEZ A2B2ZNC2NC2NC2YYW

Deep in the hush of a mighty woodA
I came to a place of dread and dreamB
And forms of shadows whose shapes eludeC
The searching swords of the sun's dim gleamB
Builders of silence and solitudeC
And there where a glimmering water creptD
From rock to rock with a slumberous soundE
Tired to tears on the mossy groundE
Under a tree I lay and sleptD
Was it the heart of an olden oakF
Was it the soul of a flower that diedG
Or was it the wildrose there that spokeF
The wilding lily that palely sighedG
For all on a sudden it seemed I awokeF
And the leaves and the flowers were all intentH
On a visible something of light and bloomI
A presence felt as a wild perfumeI
Or beautiful music that came and wentH
And all the grief I had known was goneJ
And all the anguish of heart and soulK
And the burden of care that had made me wanL
Lifted and left me strong and wholeK
As once in the flush of my youth's dead dawnJ
And lo it was night And the oval moonM
A silvery silence paced the woodA
And there in its light like snow she stoodA
As starry still as a star aswoonM
At first I thought that I looked intoN
A shadowy water of violetO
Where the faint reflection of one I knewN
Long dead gazed up from its mirror wetP
Till she smiled in my face as the living doN
Till I felt her touch and heard her sayQ
In a voice as still as a rose unfoldsR
'You have come at last and now nothing holdsR
Give me your hand let us wander awayQ
'Let us wander away through the Shadow WoodA
Through the Shadow Wood to the Shadow LandS
Where the trees have speech and the blossoms broodC
Like visible music and hand in handS
The winds and the waters go rainbow huedC
Where ever the voice of beauty sighsT
And ever the dance of dreams goes onM
Where nothing grows old and the dead and goneM
And the loved and lost smile into your eyesT
'Let us wander away let us wander awayQ
Do you hear them calling 'Come here and live'U
Do you hear what the trees and the flowers sayQ
Wonderful wild and imperativeU
Hushed as the hues of the dawn of dayQ
They say 'Your life that was rose and rueN
In a world of shadows where all things dieV
Where beauty is dust and love a lieV
Is finished Come here we are waiting for you ''W
And she took my hand and the trees aroundE
Seemed whispering something I dared not hearX
And the taciturn flowers that strewed the groundE
Seemed thinking something I felt with fearY
A beautiful something that made no soundE
And she led me on through the forest oldZ
Where the moon and the midnight stood on guardA2
Sentinel spirits that shimmered the swardB2
Silver and sable and glimmering goldZ
And then in an instant I knew I knewN
What the trees had whispered the winds had saidC2
What the flowers had thought in their hearts of dewN
And the stars had syllabled overheadC2
And she bent above me and smiled ' 'T is trueN
Heart of my heart you have heard arightC2
Look in my eyes and draw me nearY
Look in my eyes and have no fearY
Heart of my heart you died to night 'W

Madison Julius Cawein



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