Burial Of The Minnisink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII FFJJFF KKLLFF MMNNOO FFJJPP QQROMS| On sunny slope and beechen swell | A |
| The shadowed light of evening fell | A |
| And where the maple's leaf was brown | B |
| With soft and silent lapse came down | B |
| The glory that the wood receives | C |
| At sunset in its golden leaves | C |
| - | |
| Far upward in the mellow light | D |
| Rose the blue hills One cloud of white | D |
| Around a far uplifted cone | E |
| In the warm blush of evening shone | E |
| An image of the silver lakes | F |
| By which the Indian's soul awakes | F |
| - | |
| But soon a funeral hymn was heard | G |
| Where the soft breath of evening stirred | G |
| The tall gray forest and a band | H |
| Of stern in heart and strong in hand | H |
| Came winding down beside the wave | I |
| To lay the red chief in his grave | I |
| - | |
| They sang that by his native bowers | F |
| He stood in the last moon of flowers | F |
| And thirty snows had not yet shed | J |
| Their glory on the warrior's head | J |
| But as the summer fruit decays | F |
| So died he in those naked days | F |
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| A dark cloak of the roebuck's skin | K |
| Covered the warrior and within | K |
| Its heavy folds the weapons made | L |
| For the hard toils of war were laid | L |
| The cuirass woven of plaited reeds | F |
| And the broad belt of shells and beads | F |
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| Before a dark haired virgin train | M |
| Chanted the death dirge of the slain | M |
| Behind the long procession came | N |
| Of hoary men and chiefs of fame | N |
| With heavy hearts and eyes of grief | O |
| Leading the war horse of their chief | O |
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| Stripped of his proud and martial dress | F |
| Uncurbed unreined and riderless | F |
| With darting eye and nostril spread | J |
| And heavy and impatient tread | J |
| He came and oft that eye so proud | P |
| Asked for his rider in the crowd | P |
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| They buried the dark chief they freed | Q |
| Beside the grave his battle steed | Q |
| And swift an arrow cleaved its way | R |
| To his stern heart One piercing neigh | O |
| Arose and on the dead man's plain | M |
| The rider grasps his steed again | S |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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