Hiawatha's Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Hiawatha's Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Downward through the evening twilight	A
In the days that are forgotten	B
In the unremembered ages	C
From the full moon fell Nokomis	C
Fell the beautiful Nokomis	C
She a wife but not a mother	D
She was sporting with her women	B
Swinging in a swing of grape vines	C
When her rival the rejected	E
Full of jealousy and hatred	F
Cut the leafy swing asunder	D
Cut in twain the twisted grape vines	C
And Nokomis fell affrighted	F
Downward through the evening twilight	F
On the Muskoday the meadow	F
On the prairie full of blossoms	C
See a star falls said the people	G
From the sky a star is falling	H
There among the ferns and mosses	C
There among the prairie lilies	C
On the Muskoday the meadow	F
In the moonlight and the starlight	F
Fair Nokomis bore a daughter	D
And she called her name Wenonah	B
As the first born of her daughters	C
And the daughter of Nokomis	C
Grew up like the prairie lilies	C
Grew a tall and slender maiden	B
With the beauty of the moonlight	F
With the beauty of the starlight	F
And Nokomis warned her often	B
Saying oft and oft repeating	H
Oh beware of Mudjekeewis	C
Of the West Wind Mudjekeewis	C
Listen not to what he tells you	I
Lie not down upon the meadow	F
Stoop not down among the lilies	C
Lest the West Wind come and harm you	I
But she heeded not the warning	H
Heeded not those words of wisdom	J
And the West Wind came at evening	H
Walking lightly o'er the prairie	K
Whispering to the leaves and blossoms	C
Bending low the flowers and grasses	C
Found the beautiful Wenonah	B
Lying there among the lilies	C
Wooed her with his words of sweetness	C
Wooed her with his soft caresses	C
Till she bore a son in sorrow	F
Bore a son of love and sorrow	F
Thus was born my Hiawatha	L
Thus was born the child of wonder	D
But the daughter of Nokomis	C
Hiawatha's gentle mother	D
In her anguish died deserted	F
By the West Wind false and faithless	C
By the heartless Mudjekeewis	C
For her daughter long and loudly	K
Wailed and wept the sad Nokomis	C
Oh that I were dead she murmured	F
Oh that I were dead as thou art	F
No more work and no more weeping	H
Wahonowin Wahonowin	B
By the shores of Gitche Gumee	J
By the shining Big Sea Water	D
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis	C
Daughter of the Moon Nokomis	C
Dark behind it rose the forest	F
Rose the black and gloomy pine trees	C
Rose the firs with cones upon them	J
Bright before it beat the water	D
Beat the clear and sunny water	D
Beat the shining Big Sea Water	D
There the wrinkled old Nokomis	C
Nursed the little Hiawatha	L
Rocked him in his linden cradle	G
Bedded soft in moss and rushes	C
Safely bound with reindeer sinews	C
Stilled his fretful wail by saying	H
Hush the Naked Bear will hear thee	K
Lulled him into slumber singing	H
Ewa yea my little owlet	F
Who is this that lights the wigwam	J
With his great eyes lights the wigwam	J
Ewa yea my little owlet	F
Many things Nokomis taught him	J
Of the stars that shine in heaven	B
Showed him Ishkoodah the comet	F
Ishkoodah with fiery tresses	C
Showed the Death Dance of the spirits	C
Warriors with their plumes and war clubs	C
Flaring far away to northward	F
In the frosty nights of Winter	D
Showed the broad white road in heaven	B
Pathway of the ghosts the shadows	C
Running straight across the heavens	C
Crowded with the ghosts the shadows	C
At the door on summer evenings	C
Sat the little Hiawatha	L
Heard the whispering of the pine trees	C
Heard the lapping of the waters	C
Sounds of music words of wonder	D
'Minne wawa said the Pine trees	C
Mudway aushka said the water	D
Saw the fire fly Wah wah taysee	C
Flitting through the dusk of evening	H
With the twinkle of its candle	G
Lighting up the brakes and bushes	C
And he sang the song of children	B
Sang the song Nokomis taught him	J
Wah wah taysee little fire fly	M
Little flitting white fire insect	F
Little dancing white fire creature	D
Light me with your little candle	G
Ere upon my bed I lay me	K
Ere in sleep I close my eyelids	C
Saw the moon rise from the water	D
Rippling rounding from the water	D
Saw the flecks and shadows on it	F
Whispered What is that Nokomis	C
And the good Nokomis answered	F
Once a warrior very angry	K
Seized his grandmother and threw her	D
Up into the sky at midnight	F
Right against the moon he threw her	D
'T is her body that you see there	N
Saw the rainbow in the heaven	B
In the eastern sky the rainbow	F
Whispered What is that Nokomis	C
And the good Nokomis answered	F
'T is the heaven of flowers you see there	N
All the wild flowers of the forest	F
All the lilies of the prairie	K
When on earth they fade and perish	O
Blossom in that heaven above us	C
When he heard the owls at midnight	F
Hooting laughing in the forest	F
'What is that he cried in terror	D
What is that he said Nokomis	C
And the good Nokomis answered	F
That is but the owl and owlet	F
Talking in their native language	P
Talking scolding at each other	D
Then the little Hiawatha	L
Learned of every bird its language	P
Learned their names and all their secrets	C
How they built their nests in Summer	D
Where they hid themselves in Winter	D
Talked with them whene'er he met them	J
Called them Hiawatha's Chickens	C
Of all beasts he learned the language	P
Learned their names and all their secrets	C
How the beavers built their lodges	C
Where the squirrels hid their acorns	C
How the reindeer ran so swiftly	K
Why the rabbit was so timid	F
Talked with them whene'er he met them	J
Called them Hiawatha's Brothers	C
Then Iagoo the great boaster	D
He the marvellous story teller	D
He the traveller and the talker	D
He the friend of old Nokomis	C
Made a bow for Hiawatha	L
From a branch of ash he made it	F
From an oak bough made the arrows	C
Tipped with flint and winged with feathers	C
And the cord he made of deer skin	B
Then he said to Hiawatha	L
Go my son into the forest	F
Where the red deer herd together	D
Kill for us a famous roebuck	Q
Kill for us a deer with antlers	C
Forth into the forest straightway	R
All alone walked Hiawatha	L
Proudly with his bow and arrows	C
And the birds sang round him o'er him	J
Do not shoot us Hiawatha	L
Sang the robin the Opechee	O
Sang the bluebird the Owaissa	C
Do not shoot us Hiawatha	L
Up the oak tree close beside him	J
Sprang the squirrel Adjidaumo	J
In and out among the branches	C
Coughed and chattered from the oak tree	D
Laughed and said between his laughing	H
Do not shoot me Hiawatha	L
And the rabbit from his pathway	R
Leaped aside and at a distance	C
Sat erect upon his haunches	C
Half in fear and half in frolic	S
Saying to the little hunter	D
Do not shoot me Hiawatha	L
But he heeded not nor heard them	J
For his thoughts were with the red deer	D
On their tracks his eyes were fastened	F
Leading downward to the river	D
To the ford across the river	D
And as one in slumber walked he	D
Hidden in the alder bushes	C
There he waited till the deer came	J
Till he saw two antlers lifted	F
Saw two eyes look from the thicket	F
Saw two nostrils point to windward	F
And a deer came down the pathway	R
Flecked with leafy light and shadow	F
And his heart within him fluttered	F
Trembled like the leaves above him	J
Like the birch leaf palpitated	F
As the deer came down the pathway	R
Then upon one knee uprising	H
Hiawatha aimed an arrow	F
Scarce a twig moved with his motion	B
Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled	F
But the wary roebuck started	F
Stamped with all his hoofs together	D
Listened with one foot uplifted	F
Leaped as if to meet the arrow	F
Ah the singing fatal arrow	F
Like a wasp it buzzed and stung him	J
Dead he lay there in the forest	F
By the ford across the river	D
Beat his timid heart no longer	D
But the heart of Hiawatha	L
Throbbed and shouted and exulted	F
As he bore the red d	F