In the forest poem analysis
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Out of the mid-wood’s twilight
Into the meadow’s dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun!
He skips through the copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!
O Hunter, snare me his shadow!
O Nightingale, catch me his strain!
Else moonstruck with music and madness
I track him in vain!
This poem is about the author in the forest seeing a faun, which is a god. The faun skips through the forest singing, and however hard the author tries to catch the god or hold on to it, he can’t. This poem, although simple in meaning, contains lots of literary elements. In the first stanza, for example, the author uses descriptive words so that the reader can visualize the faun. The second stanza uses personification, and the first two lines of the third stanza contains repetition. This poem uses a rhyme scheme of the second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming with each other.