Earlier Poems : Burial Of The Minnisink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII FFJJFF KKLLFF MMNNOO FFJJPP QQROMSOn 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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