The Setting Sachem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ KIKI L MNMNI HHHHBB| 'Twas an Injin chieftain in feathers all fine | A |
| Who stood on the ocean's rim | B |
| There were numberless leagues of excellent brine | A |
| But there wasn't enough for him | B |
| So he knuckled a thumb in his painted eye | C |
| And added a tear to the scant supply | C |
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| The surges were breaking with thund'rous voice | D |
| The winds were a shrieking shrill | E |
| This warrior thought that a trifle of noise | F |
| Was needed to fill the bill | E |
| So he lifted the top of his head off and scowled | G |
| Exalted his voice did this chieftain and howled | G |
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| The sun was aflame in a field of gold | H |
| That hung o'er the Western Sea | I |
| Bright banners of light were broadly unrolled | H |
| As banners of light should be | I |
| But no one was 'speaking a piece' to that sun | J |
| And therefore this Medicine Man begun | J |
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| 'O much heap of bright O big ball of warm | K |
| I've tracked you from sea to sea | I |
| For the Paleface has been at some pains to inform | K |
| Me you are the emblem of me | I |
| He says to me cheerfully 'Westward Ho ' | - |
| And westward I've hoed a most difficult row | L |
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| 'Since you are the emblem of me I presume | M |
| That I am the emblem of you | N |
| And thus as we're equals 't is safe to assume | M |
| That one great law governs us two | N |
| So now if I set in the ocean with thee | I |
| With thee I shall rise again out of the sea ' | - |
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| His eloquence first and his logic the last | H |
| Such orators die and he died | H |
| The trump was against him his luck bad he 'passed' | H |
| And so he 'passed out' with the tide | H |
| This Injin is rid of the world with a whim | B |
| The world it is rid of his speeches and him | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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