The Haunted Woodland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED FGHGIG JIIICI KLMLNL JONPIP QNINRN| Here in the golden darkness | A |
| And green night of the woods | B |
| A flitting form I follow | C |
| A shadow that eludes | D |
| Or is it but the phantom | E |
| Of former forest moods | D |
| - | |
| The phantom of some fancy | F |
| I knew when I was young | G |
| And in my dreaming boyhood | H |
| The wildwood flow'rs among | G |
| Young face to face with Faery | I |
| Spoke in no unknown tongue | G |
| - | |
| Blue were her eyes and golden | J |
| The nimbus of her hair | I |
| And crimson as a flower | I |
| Her mouth that kissed me there | I |
| That kissed and bade me follow | C |
| And smiled away my care | I |
| - | |
| A magic and a marvel | K |
| Lived in her word and look | L |
| As down among the blossoms | M |
| She sate me by the brook | L |
| And read me wonder legends | N |
| In Nature's Story Book | L |
| - | |
| Loved fairy tales forgotten | J |
| She never reads again | O |
| Of beautiful enchantments | N |
| That haunt the sun and rain | P |
| And in the wind and water | I |
| Chant a mysterious strain | P |
| - | |
| And so I search the forest | Q |
| Wherein my spirit feels | N |
| In tree or stream or flower | I |
| Herself she still conceals | N |
| But now she flies who followed | R |
| Whom Earth no more reveals | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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