The Pilot Of The Plains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCDCEEDEFFBFGGGC GGGGGGGCFFGCHHGCGGBG HCGCIICIFFGF| False ' they said thy Pale face lover from the land of waking morn | A |
| Rise and wed thy Redskin wooer nobler warrior ne'er was born | A |
| Cease thy watching cease thy dreaming | B |
| Show the white thine Indian scorn ' | C |
| Thus they taunted her declaring He remembers naught of thee | D |
| Likely some white maid he wooeth far beyond the inland sea ' | C |
| But she answered ever kindly | D |
| He will come again to me ' | C |
| Till the dusk of Indian summer crept athwart the western skies | E |
| But a deeper dusk was burning in her dark and dreaming eyes | E |
| As she scanned the rolling prairie | D |
| Where the foothills fall and rise | E |
| Till the autumn came and vanished till the season of the rains | F |
| Till the western world lay fettered in midwinter's crystal chains | F |
| Still she listened for his coming | B |
| Still she watched the distant plains | F |
| Then a night with nor'land tempest nor'land snows a swirling fast | G |
| Out upon the pathless prairie came the Pale face through the blast | G |
| Calling calling Yakonwita | G |
| I am coming love at last ' | C |
| Hovered night above about him dark its wings and cold and dread | G |
| Never unto trail or tepee were his straying footsteps led | G |
| Till benumbed he sank and pillowed | G |
| On the drifting snows his head | G |
| Saying O my Yakonwita call me call me be my guide | G |
| To the lodge beyond the prairie for I vowed ere winter died | G |
| I would come again belov d | G |
| I would claim my Indian bride ' | C |
| Yakonwita Yakonwita ' Oh the dreariness that strains | F |
| Through the voice that calling quivers till a whisper but remains | F |
| Yakonwita Yakonwita | G |
| I am lost upon the plains ' | C |
| But the Silent Spirit hushed him lulled him as he cried anew | H |
| Save me save me O beloved I am Pale but I am true | H |
| Yakonwita Yakonwita | G |
| I am dying love for you ' | C |
| Leagues afar across the prairie she had risen from her bed | G |
| Roused her kinsmen from their slumber He has come to night ' she said | G |
| I can hear him calling calling | B |
| But his voice is as the dead | G |
| Listen ' and they sate all silent while the tempest louder grew | H |
| And a spirit voice called faintly I am dying love for you ' | C |
| Then they wailed O Yakonwita | G |
| He was Pale but he was true ' | C |
| Wrapped she then her ermine round her stepped without the tepee door | I |
| Saying I must follow follow though he call for evermore | I |
| Yakonwita Yakonwita ' | C |
| And they never saw her more | I |
| Late at night say Indian hunters when the starlight clouds or wanes | F |
| Far away they see a maiden misty as the autumn rains | F |
| Guiding with her lamp of moonlight | G |
| Hunters lost upon the plains | F |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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