The Stranger In Louisiana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGG AHHIJKKLLMMGG ANOPPQQRSTTGG| We saw thee O stranger and wept | A |
| We look'd for the youth of the sunny glance | B |
| Whose step was the fleetest in chase or dance | B |
| The light of his eye was a joy to see | C |
| The path of his arrows a storm to flee | C |
| But there came a voice from a distant shore | D |
| He was call'd he is found 'midst his tribe no more | D |
| He is not in his place when the night fires burn | E |
| But we look for him still he will yet return | E |
| His brother sat with a drooping brow | F |
| In the gloom of the shadowing cypress bough | F |
| We rous'd him we bade him no longer pine | G |
| For we heard a step but the step was thine | G |
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| We saw thee O stranger and wept | A |
| We look'd for the maid of the mournful song | H |
| Mournful though sweet she hath left us long | H |
| We told her the youth of her love was gone | I |
| And she went forth to seek him she pass'd alone | J |
| We hear not her voice when the woods are still | K |
| From the bower where it sang like a silvery rill | K |
| The joy of her sire with her smile is fled | L |
| The winter is white on his lonely head | L |
| He hath none by his side when the wilds we track | M |
| He hath none when we rest yet she comes not back | M |
| We look'd for her eye on the feast to shine | G |
| For her breezy step but the step was thine | G |
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| We saw thee O stranger and wept | A |
| We look'd for the chief who hath left the spear | N |
| And the bow of his battles forgotten here | O |
| We look'd for the hunter whose bride's lament | P |
| On the wind of the forest at eve is sent | P |
| We look'd for the first born whose mother's cry | Q |
| Sounds wild and shrill through the midnight sky | Q |
| Where are they thou 'rt seeking some distant coast | R |
| Oh ask of them stranger send back the lost | S |
| Tell them we mourn by the dark blue streams | T |
| Tell them our lives but of them are dreams | T |
| Tell how we sat in the gloom to pine | G |
| And to watch for a step but the step was thine | G |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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