The Legend Of The Falls[cg] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEFFGGFFHHIIJJ| Read at the Celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County at the Academy of Music Minneapolis July | A |
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| On the Spirit Island CH sitting under midnight's misty moon | B |
| Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one | C |
| Slumber wraps the silent city and the droning mills are dumb | D |
| One lone whippowil's shrill ditty calls her mate that ne'er will come | D |
| Sadly moans the mighty river foaming down the fettered falls | E |
| Where of old he thundered ever o'er abrupt and lofty walls | E |
| Great Unkt hee god of waters lifts no more his mighty head | F |
| Fled he with the timid otters lies he in the cavern dead | F |
| Hark the waters hush their sighing and the whippowil her call | G |
| Through the moon lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all | G |
| Lo from out the waters foaming from the cavern deep and dread | F |
| Through the glamour and the gloaming comes a spirit of the dead | F |
| Sad she seems her tresses raven on her tawny shoulders rest | H |
| Sorrow on her brow is graven in her arms a babe is pressed | H |
| Hark she chants the solemn story sings the legend sad and old | I |
| And the river wrapt in glory listens while the tale is told | I |
| Would you hear the legend olden hearken while I tell the tale | J |
| Shorn alas of many a golden weird Dakota chant and wail | J |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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