Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GG HH II JJ KK LM NO PQ RS TU VW XX| In that magic forest towering trees | A |
| Unexpectedly come forward from the haze | B |
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| Out of the earth roots spring from other roots | C |
| Like the arms of the dwellers of burial vaults | D |
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| Under the cover of the blazing autumn leaves | E |
| Lonesome giants trolls and lions used to live | F |
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| Here sailors saw the tracks in golden sand | G |
| Left behind by a six fingered human hand | G |
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| Peers of France and Arthurian valiant knights | H |
| Never set on this forbidden place their sights | H |
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| Nor the bushes ever hid a pirates lair | I |
| Nor a hermit ever made his lodging there | I |
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| Only once they saw in a lurid tempest s light | J |
| Cat headed woman softly stepped into the night | J |
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| Doomed to wear a solid silver coronet | K |
| She was lamenting and sobbing till the sunset | K |
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| No communion was given by a priest | L |
| When by quiet dawn she passed away in peace | M |
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| All this happened all this happened in those years | N |
| Which have passed without leaving any trace | O |
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| All this happened all this happened in a realm | P |
| Which would never come across your wildest dreams | Q |
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| I imagined all of this by looking at | R |
| Fiery braids that always snake around your head | S |
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| Looking at your ever changing greenish eyes | T |
| They're akin to Persian feverish turquoise | U |
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| Well perhaps that forest is a soul of yours | V |
| Well perhaps that forest 's always my remorse | W |
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| Or perhaps one day when we will die | X |
| To this forest we will travel you and I | X |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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