The New Hawaiian Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHIJK LDJL FJMNO JE JPQ KR K STSTUU V W K XYZA2S V SCC K AB2C2 V AB2 P C2B2D2D2 V A E2F2E V G2F2G2H2 I2 A H2J2LRLK2K2 L2 WM2WM2 N2 QQO2 P2 O2Q2 G2G2R2R2LLS2 DT2U2V2W2 X2 Y2SY2Z2 A3 B3 C3PU P2 AAD3 A D3 C UUE3F3 L2G3 E3QS2 A S2 A H3H3AAI3D3 S2 I3S2 S2 S2S2S2 S2 F3F3J3 K3 L3 J3H2H2L S2 LM3M3N3N3O3O3 U S P3P3C3 Q3 L2L2R3R3S3S3T3T3I3I3 S2S2T2T2C3C3C3 U C3 UUU3U3Z2Z2V3 L2 V3V3C3C3W3W3T3 X3 T3 Y3 Z3Z3B2B2N3N3LLN2N2C C CUX3A4A4C3C3 F B4C4 V B4D4E X3 V D4X3X3D3D3RRC3C3C3 X3 X3 E4E4SSQQC3C3 F4G4 I3H4H4H4I4I4J4J C J4X3 J3 D3 C3EC3 D3 C3 C3 S C3 SC3C N3K4N3K4D3LC V3 LF3F3Q C3 Q C3 L4CCL4EE C3 D4D4E C3E3C2

EXPLANATORY	A
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Kamehameha First of the Hawaiian Islands conquered his	B
foes in a great battle driving them over the high mountain	C
peak known as Pali one of the famous scenic views of the	D
world and the goal of all visitors in Honolulu	E
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The Hula pronounced hoola was the national muscle and	F
abdominal dance of Hawaii and the late King Kalakua was its	G
enthusiastic patron The costume of the dancers was	H
composed chiefly of skirts of grass The Hula so attired	I
is now forbidden by law The Hula Kui is a modification of	J
the dance and exceedingly graceful	K
	-
Many charming young self supporting woman in Honolulu trace	L
their ancestry back to Kamehameha with great pride The	D
chant is a weird sing song which relates the conquests of	J
the race	L
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It is the custom in Honolulu to present guests at feasts and	F
festivals or departing visitors with long wreaths of	J
natural flowers and which are worn by men as well as	M
women about the head hat and neck These wreaths called	N
lais pronounced lays sometimes reach below the waist	O
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The flower sellers are one of the national features of	J
Honolulu	E
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Scene made to represent grounds at Hawaiian hotel Sort of	J
open cafe or pavilion with palms vines and tropic flowers	P
RALPH sitting alone with a dreamy air	Q
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Enter ETHEL in short travelling suit typical	K
American girl blonde and petite	R
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ETHEL	K
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Oh here you are Your sister and your mother	S
Commissioned me detective sleuth and spy	T
To find the disappearing son and brother	S
And tell him that the time is slipping by	T
Our boat will sail in just two hours you know	U
Dear Honolulu how I hate to go	U
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RALPH	V
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Don't mention it I shun the very thought	W
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ETHEL	K
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You see this is the sort of thing one hears	X
And don't believe until one sees the spot	Y
We left New York in snow up to its ears	Z
And now a Paradise the palm the rose	A2
The Boaganvillia and the breath of summer	S
	-
RALPH	V
	-
I tell you Honolulu is a hummer	S
It pays for six long days upon the ocean	C
And those sad memories of a ship's queer motion	C
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ETHEL	K
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There's one thing though that's disappointed me	A
The much exploited Honolulu maid	B2
I haven't seen a beauty in the town	C2
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RALPH	V
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They're thick as ripe bananas on a tree	A
You have not been observing I'm afraid	B2
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ETHEL shrugging her shoulders	P
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Oh well tastes differ I don't care for brown	C2
At least for this pronounced Hawaiian shade	B2
I really can't imagine how a man	D2
Could love a girl dyed to a chronic tan	D2
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RALPH	V
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Some one has said 'Love goes where it is sent '	-
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ETHEL sadly	A
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I think that true one can not guide its bent	E2
But I must go and will you come along	F2
Your mother said to bring you	E
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RALPH	V
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Not quite yet	G2
I'll wait until that bird completes its song	F2
The last I'll hear till many a sun has set	G2
Just tell the folks I'll meet them on the pier	H2
	-
Exit ETHEL looking disappointed	I2
	-
RALPH sitting down in a reverie	A
	-
A nice girl Ethel but by Jove it's queer	H2
The way a fellow's stubborn mind will turn	J2
To something that he should forget That face	L
I saw once on a San Francisco street	R
How well I do recall the time and place	L
'A girl from Honolulu ' some one said	K2
I wonder where she is now Married Dead	K2
	-
A silent reverie for a moment Then speaks again	L2
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I planned this trip with just one crazy thought	W
To look upon that strange girl's face once more	M2
That is the luny project which has brought	W
The four of us to this idyllic shore	M2
	-
Laughs and lights a cigar	N2
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My scheme was worked with such consummate care	Q
That mother thinks SHE planned the whole affair	Q
Then she invited Ethel as her guest	O2
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Silence for a moment	P2
	-
Well sometimes mothers know just what is best	O2
For wayward sons	Q2
	-
And yet and yet and yet	G2
Why is it one girl's face I can't forget	G2
Why is it that I feel despondent hearted	R2
In missing that fool hope for which I started	R2
Four thousand miles is something of a chase	L
To run to cover one elusive face	L
And then to FAIL	S2
	-
Reverie A chant is heard outside The man listens The	D
chant ceases and then a maiden slowly approaches calling out	T2
her flower wares which she carries in a basket she wears	U2
several lais herself on hat and neck She does not observe	V2
the man at first	W2
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FLOWER GIRL calls in a musical voice	X2
	-
Lais lais royal lais beautiful flowers in bloom	Y2
Colours of splendour fragrance so tender	S
Blossoms to brighten your room	Y2
Lais lais royal lais who buys	Z2
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RALPH leans forward and says aside	A3
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Eve and the serpent meet in Paradise	B3
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He moves forward as the maid enters the doorway	C3
Recognition shows in both faces Then the maiden recovers	P
her self possession and starts to go	U
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RALPH with sudden boldness and excitement	P2
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I'll buy you out in case you then are free	A
To stay awhile beneath this banyan tree	A
And tell me all about your lovely land	D3
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FLOWER GIRL with dignity	A
	-
Your pardon sir I do not understand	D3
	-
RALPH who seems drunk with exhilaration	C
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Oh well 'tis plain enough from realms of snow	U
I landed here some little time ago	U
A lonely orphan without kith or kin	E3
I need a friend	F3
	-
FLOWER GIRL gives him an indignant surprised glance Then	L2
speaks with quiet sarcasm	G3
	-
Sir they will take you in	E3
On Hotel Street The Y M C A there	Q
Shelters all homeless youths within its pale	S2
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RALPH shaking his head sadly	A
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They wouldn't take ME in I am from Yale	S2
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GIRL with mock sympathy	A
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Oh that IS sad Because no skill or tact	H3
You might employ could ever hide the fact	H3
From all the world wherever you might be	A
Now Harvard Princeton Stanford men we see	A
And never know until they speak the name	I3
But Yale it bears its brand	D3
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RALPH reproachfully	S2
	-
You're making game	I3
Of me and of my College cruel girl	S2
	-
Approaches her excitedly	S2
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Come drop those flowers and let us have a whirl	S2
I'll give you both the Yale Yell and the Boola	S2
If you will dance for me your famous Hula	S2
	-
GIRL drawing back haughtily	S2
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I dance the Hula You mistake my friend	F3
You heard my chant but did not comprehend	F3
The meaning of it Hark while I repeat it	J3
	-
Repeats the chant	K3
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RALPH puzzled	L3
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I'm sure there's nothing in the world can beat it	J3
But er the language is a little queer	H2
I did not quite catch all the words I fear	H2
Besides I'm so distracted by your face	L
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GIRL proudly	S2
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That chant relates the conquests of my race	L
Though I am poor and hawk about these lais	M3
To earn my bread yet in the olden days	M3
There was no prouder family on earth	N3
Than mine But Polynesian pride of birth	N3
Is quite beyond the white man's scope of brain	O3
And so perchance I speak to you in vain	O3
	-
Takes her flowers and starts to go	U
	-
RALPH intercepts her	S
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Great Scott but you are splendid when you're mad	P3
Now please don't go I'm really not so bad	P3
I don't mean half I say	C3
	-
GIRL turns blazing eyes upon him	Q3
	-
Oh all you men	L2
Of pallid blood again and yet again	L2
Have offered insults to our island races	R3
I own we once were savage and the traces	R3
Of those wild days remain but sir go back	S3
A little way on YOUR ancestral track	S3
And see what you will find A horde of bold	T3
And lawless cut throats started many an old	T3
And purse proud race and brutal strength became	I3
The bloody groundwork for pretentious fame	I3
When Might was Right If every royal tree	S2
Were dug up by the roots the world would see	S2
That common mud first mothered the poor sprout	T2
Your race is higher than my own no doubt	T2
Then shame upon you for the poor display	C3
Of noble manhood that you make to day	C3
Thinking each brown faced girl your lawful prey	C3
	-
Turns her back upon him and starts to go	U
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RALPH pleadingly	C3
	-
Oh say now let a fellow have a show	U
I never meant to rouse your anger so	U
I only meant I well you see the change	U3
Of climate was so sudden and the strange	U3
And gorgeous scenery and your glorious eyes	Z2
Upset my brain But you have put me wise	Z2
I own that I had heard	V3
	-
Hesitates and GIRL breaks forth again	L2
	-
Oh yes I know you heard	V3
Wild tales of Honolulu and were stirred	V3
With high ambitions to return to Yale	C3
The envied hero of a wilder tale	C3
You thought each maiden on this Isle perchance	W3
Wore skirts of grass and danced the Hula dance	W3
And gave her lips to any man for gold	T3
	-
RALPH interrupting	X3
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Oh 'pon my honour I was not so bold	T3
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GIRL ignoring and with vehemence	Y3
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You thought the old time licence still prevailed	Z3
You did not know across the heavens had sailed	Z3
A beautiful star in brilliancy arrayed	B2
The SELF RESPECTING NEW HAWAIIAN MAID	B2
Who prides herself upon her blood and birth	N3
And holds her virtue at its priceless worth	N3
And stands undaunted in her rightful place	L
Snow white of soul however brown of face	L
Warmer in blood than your white women are	N2
And yet more moral in her life by far	N2
Than many a leader in your halls of fashion	C
	-
RALPH gazing at her with admiration	C
	-
I vow I like to see you in a passion	C
Such royal rage Your forbear was I know	U
Kame a lili like kalico	X3
Or some such name who got in that great tiff	A4
And tumbled all his foes down off the cliff	A4
I feel I'm lying with them in the valley	C3
While you stand all triumphant on the Pali	C3
	-
GIRL smiling and softened	F
	-
You mean Kamehameha First I'm sure	B4
Yes I am of his line	C4
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RALPH	V
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May it endure	B4
Until the end of time for you are GREAT	D4
The world needs women like you	E
	-
GIRL turns to go	X3
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RALPH	V
	-
Oh now wait	D4
I want some flowers please hang about my neck	X3
A dozen lais and give me half a peck	X3
Of nice bouquets then I will hire a band	D3
And celebrate my entrance to your land	D3
I'll dance the Hula up and down the street	R
And cry Aloha to each girl I meet	R
And if she frowns and calls me cad and churl	C3
I'll shout Long Live the New Hawaiian Girl	C3
Rah rah rah Yale Yale Yale	C3
	-
A Hawaiian Band is heard approaching	X3
	-
GIRL laughingly as she hangs lais about his neck	X3
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Well there's your band and since you are so kind	E4
To purchase all my flowers I've half a mind	E4
To favour you with not the Hula sir	S
But something more refined and prettier	S
I'll teach it to you ask the band out there	Q
To play the Hula Kui dancing air	Q
Then follow all I do and copy me	C3
This is the way it starts now one two three	C3
	-
After the dance ends RALPH approaches the GIRL with tense	F4
face and speaks with great seriousness	G4
	-
Girl though I do not even know your name	I3
Yet here I stand and offer you my own	H4
It was for you I came for you alone	H4
Across the half world I have never known	H4
Forgetfulness since first your face I saw	I4
In coming here I but obeyed Love's law	I4
I thought it fancy passion or caprice	J4
I know now it is LOVE	J
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FLOWER GIRL with emotion	C
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I pray you cease	J4
You do not understand yourself go go	X3
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Urges him towards exit	J3
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RALPH seizing her hand	D3
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I will not go until I hear you say	C3
That you remember even as I do	E
That brief encounter on the street one day	C3
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FLOWER GIRL turns her face away and tries to free her hand	D3
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RALPH exultantly	C3
	-
Oh it is FATE and Fate we must obey	C3
	-
Takes ring from his finger	S
	-
Let the ship go but with my heart I stay	C3
	-
Attempts to place ring on GIRL'S finger She wrenches her	S
hand free and stands with both hands behind her as she	C3
speaks with suppressed emotion	C
	-
The heart of every Island girl on earth	N3
I think hides one sweet dream and it is this	K4
To one day meet a man of higher birth	N3
To win his heart to feel his tender kiss	K4
And sail with him to some far distant land	D3
This too has been my dream wherein your face	L
Shone like a beacon	C
	-
Repels RALPH as he starts forward	V3
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But I know your race	L
Too well too well I know how such dreams end	F3
You could not claim me in your land my friend	F3
For colour prejudice is rampant there	Q
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RALPH impetuously	C3
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But I will stay for ever here I swear	Q
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FLOWER GIRL	C3
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Nay do not swear you would but break the vow	L4
As many another has Our tropic sun	C
Affects men like a fever when 'tis run	C
Then their delusions pass Oh leave me now	L4
I hear the whistle of your ship adieu	E
Alohoa oie may God be with you	E
	-
Enter ETHEL hurriedly	C3
	-
Come Ralph your mother and your sister wait	D4
Quite frantic at the pier lest you be late	D4
They sent me for you	E
	-
Exit RALPH with ETHEL he looks back and flings GIRL a wreath GIRL	C3
smiles and sings Hawaiian song picks up the wreath and drops face in	E3
her hands as Curtain goes down	C2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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