The Legend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Tall was young Wanata stronger than Heyoka's giant formA
Laughed at flood and fire and hunger faced the fiercest winter stormA
When Wakinyan flashed and thundered when Unktehee raved and roaredB
All but brave Wanata wondered and the gods with fear imploredB
When the war whoop shrill resounded calling friends to meet the foeC
From the teepee swift he bounded armed with polished lance and bowD
In the battle's din and clangor fast his fatal arrows flewE
Flashed his fiery eyes with anger many a stealthy foe he slewE
Hunter swift was he and cunning caught the beaver slew the bearF
Overtook the roebuck running dragged the panther from his lairF
Loved was he by many a maiden many a dark eye glanced in vainG
Many a heart with sighs was laden for the love it could not gainG
So they called the brave Ska Capa CI but the fairest of the bandH
Moon faced meek Anpetu Sapa won the hunter's heart and handH
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CI Or Capa Ska White beaver White beavers are very rare veryI
cunning and hard to catchJ
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From the wars with triumph burning from the chase of bison fleetK
To his lodge the brave returning spread his trophies at her feetK
Love and joy sat in the teepee him a black eyed boy she boreL
But alas she lived to weep a love she lost forevermoreL
For the warriors chose Wanata first Itancan CJ of the bandH
At the council fire he sat a leader brave a chieftain grandH
Proud was fair Anpetu Sapa and her eyes were glad with joyM
Proud was she and very happy with her warrior and her boyM
But alas the fatal honor that her brave Wanata wonN
Brought a bitter woe upon her hid with clouds the summer sunN
For among the brave Dakotas wives bring honor to the chiefO
On the vine clad Minnesota's banks he met the Scarlet LeafO
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CJ E tan can ChiefO
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Young and fair was Ape duta CK full of craft and very fairL
Proud she walked a queen of beauty with her dark abundant hairL
In her net of hair she caught him caught Wanata with her wilesP
All in vain his wife besought him begged in vain his wonted smilesP
Ape duta ruled the teepee all Wanata's smiles were hersQ
When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star CL beheld the mother's tearsR
Long she strove to do her duty for the black eyed babe she boreL
But the proud imperious beauty made her sad forevermoreL
Still she dressed the skins of beaver bore the burdens spread the fareL
Patient ever murmuring never though her cheeks were creased with careL
In the moon Maga o kada twice an hundred years agoC
Ere the Black Robe's CM sacred shadowC
stalked the prairies' pathless snowC
Down the swollen rushing river in the sunset's golden huesS
From the hunt of bear and beaver came the band in swift canoesS
On the queen of fairy islands on the Wita Waste's CN shoreL
Camped Wanata on the highlands just above the cataract's roarL
Many braves were with Wanata Ape duta too was thereL
And the sad Anpetu sapa spread the lodge with wonted careL
Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced laughing moonT
And the stars the spirits fairy walked the welkin one by oneN
Swift and silent in the gloaming on the waste of waters blueE
Speeding downward to the foaming shot Wanata's birch canoeE
In it stood Anpetu sapa in her arms her sleeping childU
Like a wailing Norse land drapa CO rose her death song weird and wildU
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CK A pe leaf duta Scarlet Scarlet leafO
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CL Stars the Dakotas say are the faces of the departed watching overL
their friends and relatives on earthV
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CM The Dakotas called the Jesuit priests Black Robes from the colorL
of their vestmentsS
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CN Wee tah Wah stay Beautiful Island the Dakota name for NicolletU
Island just above the FallsS
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CO Drapa a Norse funeral wail in which the virtues of the deceasedU
are recountedU
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Mihihna CP Mihihna my heart is stoneW
The light is gone from my longing eyesS
The wounded loon in the lake aloneW
Her death song sings to the moon and diesS
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Mihihna Mihihna the path is longX
The burden is heavy and hard to bearL
I sink I die and my dying songX
Is a song of joy to the false one's earL
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Mihihna Mihihna my young heart flewE
Far away with my brave to the bison chaseS
To the battle it went with my warrior trueE
And never returned till I saw his faceS
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Mihihna Mihihna my brave was gladU
When he came from the chase of the roebuck fleetU
Sweet were the words that my hunter saidU
As his trophies he laid at Anpetu's feetU
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Mihihna Mihihna the boy I boreL
When the robin sang and my brave was trueE
I can bear to look on his face no moreL
For he looks Mihihna so much like youE
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Mihihna Mihihna the Scarlet LeafO
Has robbed my boy of his father's loveY
He sleeps in my arms he will find no griefO
In the star lit lodge in the land aboveY
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Mihihna Mihihna my heart is stoneW
The light is gone from my longing eyesS
The wounded loon in the lake aloneW
Her death song sings to the moon and diesS
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CP Mee heen yah My husbandU
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Swiftly down the turbid torrent as she sung her song she flewE
Like a swan upon the current dancing rode the light canoeE
Hunters hurry in the gloaming all in vain Wanata callsS
Singing through the surges foaming lo she plunges o'er the FallsS
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Long they searched the sullen river searched for leagues along the shoreL
Bark or babe or mother never saw the sad Dakotas moreL
But at night or misty morning oft the hunters heard her songX
Oft the maidens heard her warning in their mellow mother tongueZ
On the bluffs they sat enchanted till the blush of beamy dawnA2
Spirit Isle they say is haunted and they call the spot Wakan CQZ
Many summers on the highland in the full moon's golden glowC
In the woods on Fairy Island CR walked a snow white fawn and doeC
Spirits of the babe and mother sadly seeking evermoreL
For a father's love another turned away with evil powerL
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Sometimes still when moonbeams shimmer through the maples on the lawnA2
In the gloaming and the glimmer walk the silent doe and fawnA2
And on Spirit Isle or near it under midnight's misty moonT
Oft is seen the mother's spirit oft is heard her mournful tuneT
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CQ Pronounced Walk on Sacred inhabited by a spiritU
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CR Fairy Island Wita Waste Nicollet IslandU

Hanford Lennox Gordon



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