The Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIJKLMMJNOPQ PJRSTUVWXYKZA2B2C2D2 DE2E2F2G2D2H2I2J2NK2 L2M2N2H2ZO2DP2VP2KSQ 2R2S2T2U2V2W2A2R2X2Y 2N2F2Z2WA3B3R2B2C3D3 R2E3F3G3H3Y2I3J3R2E3 K3D2L3K3M3N3O3J3H3JE 2P3R| A lantern light from deeper in the barn | A |
| Shone on a man and woman in the door | B |
| And threw their lurching shadows on a house | C |
| Near by all dark in every glossy window | D |
| A horse's hoof pawed once the hollow floor | B |
| And the back of the gig they stood beside | E |
| Moved in a little The man grasped a wheel | F |
| The woman spoke out sharply Whoa stand still | G |
| I saw it just as plain as a white plate | H |
| She said as the light on the dashboard ran | I |
| Along the bushes at the roadside a man's face | J |
| You must have seen it too | K |
| I didn't see it | L |
| Are you sure | M |
| Yes I'm sure | M |
| it was a face | J |
| Joel I'll have to look I can't go in | N |
| I can't and leave a thing like that unsettled | O |
| Doors locked and curtains drawn will make no difference | P |
| I always have felt strange when we came home | Q |
| To the dark house after so long an absence | P |
| And the key rattled loudly into place | J |
| Seemed to warn someone to be getting out | R |
| At one door as we entered at another | S |
| What if I'm right and someone all the time | T |
| Don't hold my arm | U |
| I say it's someone passing | V |
| You speak as if this were a travelled road | W |
| You forget where we are What is beyond | X |
| That he'd be going to or coming from | Y |
| At such an hour of night and on foot too | K |
| What was he standing still for in the bushes | Z |
| It's not so very late it's only dark | A2 |
| There's more in it than you're inclined to say | B2 |
| Did he look like | C2 |
| He looked like anyone | D2 |
| I'll never rest to night unless I know | D |
| Give me the lantern | E2 |
| You don't want the lantern | E2 |
| She pushed past him and got it for herself | F2 |
| You're not to come she said This is my business | G2 |
| If the time's come to face it I'm the one | D2 |
| To put it the right way He'd never dare | H2 |
| Listen He kicked a stone Hear that hear that | I2 |
| He's coming towards us Joel go in please | J2 |
| Hark I don't hear him now But please go in | N |
| In the first place you can't make me believe it's | K2 |
| It is or someone else he's sent to watch | L2 |
| And now's the time to have it out with him | M2 |
| While we know definitely where he is | N2 |
| Let him get off and he'll be everywhere | H2 |
| Around us looking out of trees and bushes | Z |
| Till I sha'n't dare to set a foot outdoors | O2 |
| And I can't stand it Joel let me go | D |
| But it's nonsense to think he'd care enough | P2 |
| You mean you couldn't understand his caring | V |
| Oh but you see he hadn't had enough | P2 |
| Joel I won't I won't I promise you | K |
| We mustn't say hard things You mustn't either | S |
| I'll be the one if anybody goes | Q2 |
| But you give him the advantage with this light | R2 |
| What couldn't he do to us standing here | S2 |
| And if to see was what he wanted why | T2 |
| He has seen all there was to see and gone | U2 |
| He appeared to forget to keep his hold | V2 |
| But advanced with her as she crossed the grass | W2 |
| What do you want she cried to all the dark | A2 |
| She stretched up tall to overlook the light | R2 |
| That hung in both hands hot against her skirt | X2 |
| There's no one so you're wrong he said | Y2 |
| There is | N2 |
| What do you want she cried and then herself | F2 |
| Was startled when an answer really came | Z2 |
| Nothing It came from well along the road | W |
| She reached a hand to Joel for support | A3 |
| The smell of scorching woollen made her faint | B3 |
| What are you doing round this house at night | R2 |
| Nothing A pause there seemed no more to say | B2 |
| And then the voice again You seem afraid | C3 |
| I saw by the way you whipped up the horse | D3 |
| I'll just come forward in the lantern light | R2 |
| And let you see | E3 |
| Yes do Joel go back | F3 |
| She stood her ground against the noisy steps | G3 |
| That came on but her body rocked a little | H3 |
| You see the voice said | Y2 |
| Oh She looked and looked | I3 |
| You don't see I've a child here by the hand | J3 |
| What's a child doing at this time of night | R2 |
| Out walking Every child should have the memory | E3 |
| Of at least one long after bedtime walk | K3 |
| What son | D2 |
| Then I should think you'd try to find | L3 |
| Somewhere to walk | K3 |
| The highway as it happens | M3 |
| We're stopping for the fortnight down at Dean's | N3 |
| But if that's all Joel you realize | O3 |
| You won't think anything You understand | J3 |
| You understand that we have to be careful | H3 |
| This is a very very lonely place | J |
| Joel She spoke as if she couldn't turn | E2 |
| The swinging lantern lengthened to the ground | P3 |
| It touched it struck it clattered and went out | R |
Robert Lee Frost
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