The Song Of The Red Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCD DEFEGE HIHIJKJKLK JMJHNOPOPO| When the palefaces came in their whitewing'd canoes | A |
| Long ago from the sun rising sea | B |
| When they ask'd for a lodge and we did not refuse | A |
| Happy then was the red man and free | B |
| He could then choose a spot for his wigwam to stand | C |
| Where the forest was crowded with game | D |
| For the blue rolling lake and the ever smiling land | C |
| Were his own till the palefaces came | D |
| For the broad grassy plains and the forests deep and grand | C |
| Were his own till the palefaces came | D |
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| They came they came like the fierce prairie flame | D |
| Sweeping on to the sun setting shore | E |
| Gazing now on its waves but a handful of braves | F |
| We shall join in the the chase nevermore | E |
| Till we camp on the plains where the Great Spirit reigns | G |
| We shall join in the chase nevermore | E |
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| We receiv'd them with gladness as Sons of the Sky | H |
| We believ'd them of heavenly birth | I |
| But alas to our sorrow we found by and by | H |
| That like us they were born of the earth | I |
| By their false traders wrong'd by their firewater craz'd | J |
| There was no one our braves to restrain | K |
| So the swift flew and the tomahawk was raise'd | J |
| While we both mourn'd the blood of our slain | K |
| So the smoke wreath did cease from the calumet of peace | L |
| While we both mourn'd the blood of our slain | K |
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| When the oaks pines and cedars were fell'd to the ground | J |
| 'Twas a sight that with sorrow we saw | M |
| For the game fled affrighted and no food was found | J |
| For the old chief the papoose and squaw | H |
| Driven westward we came but the paleface was here | N |
| With his sharp axe and death flashing gun | O |
| And his great iron horse is rumbling in the rear | P |
| O my brave men your journey is done | O |
| Like the beaver and elk like the buffalo and deer | P |
| O my brave men your journey is done | O |
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