Hiawatha's Wedding-feast Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Hiawatha's Wedding-feast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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You shall hear how Pau Puk Keewis	A
How the handsome Yenadizze	A
Danced at Hiawatha's wedding	B
How the gentle Chibiabos	A
He the sweetest of musicians	A
Sang his songs of love and longing	B
How Iagoo the great boaster	C
He the marvellous story teller	C
Told his tales of strange adventure	C
That the feast might be more joyous	A
That the time might pass more gayly	D
And the guests be more contented	E
Sumptuous was the feast Nokomis	A
Made at Hiawatha's wedding	B
All the bowls were made of bass wood	F
White and polished very smoothly	D
All the spoons of horn of bison	G
Black and polished very smoothly	D
She had sent through all the village	H
Messengers with wands of willow	D
As a sign of invitation	G
As a token of the feasting	B
And the wedding guests assembled	I
Clad in all their richest raiment	I
Robes of fur and belts of wampum	J
Splendid with their paint and plumage	H
Beautiful with beads and tassels	A
First they ate the sturgeon Nahma	J
And the pike the Maskenozha	K
Caught and cooked by old Nokomis	A
Then on pemican they feasted	I
Pemican and buffalo marrow	D
Haunch of deer and hump of bison	G
Yellow cakes of the Mondamin	G
And the wild rice of the river	C
But the gracious Hiawatha	L
And the lovely Laughing Water	C
And the careful old Nokomis	A
Tasted not the food before them	J
Only waited on the others	A
Only served their guests in silence	A
And when all the guests had finished	I
Old Nokomis brisk and busy	A
From an ample pouch of otter	C
Filled the red stone pipes for smoking	B
With tobacco from the South land	I
Mixed with bark of the red willow	D
And with herbs and leaves of fragrance	A
Then she said O Pau Puk Keewis	A
Dance for us your merry dances	A
Dance the Beggar's Dance to please us	A
That the feast may be more joyous	A
That the time may pass more gayly	D
And our guests be more contented	I
Then the handsome Pau Puk Keewis	A
He the idle Yenadizze	A
He the merry mischief maker	C
Whom the people called the Storm Fool	D
Rose among the guests assembled	I
Skilled was he in sports and pastimes	A
In the merry dance of snow shoes	A
In the play of quoits and ball play	D
Skilled was he in games of hazard	I
In all games of skill and hazard	I
Pugasaing the Bowl and Counters	A
Kuntassoo the Game of Plum stones	A
Though the warriors called him Faint Heart	I
Called him coward Shaugodaya	M
Idler gambler Yenadizze	A
Little heeded he their jesting	B
Little cared he for their insults	A
For the women and the maidens	A
Loved the handsome Pau Puk Keewis	A
He was dressed in shirt of doeskin	G
White and soft and fringed with ermine	G
All inwrought with beads of wampum	J
He was dressed in deer skin leggings	A
Fringed with hedgehog quills and ermine	G
And in moccasins of buck skin	G
Thick with quills and beads embroidered	I
On his head were plumes of swan's down	G
On his heels were tails of foxes	A
In one hand a fan of feathers	A
And a pipe was in the other	C
Barred with streaks of red and yellow	D
Streaks of blue and bright vermilion	G
Shone the face of Pau Puk Keewis	A
From his forehead fell his tresses	A
Smooth and parted like a woman's	A
Shining bright with oil and plaited	I
Hung with braids of scented grasses	A
As among the guests assembled	I
To the sound of flutes and singing	B
To the sound of drums and voices	A
Rose the handsome Pau Puk Keewis	A
And began his mystic dances	A
First he danced a solemn measure	C
Very slow in step and gesture	C
In and out among the pine trees	A
Through the shadows and the sunshine	G
Treading softly like a panther	C
Then more swiftly and still swifter	C
Whirling spinning round in circles	A
Leaping o'er the guests assembled	I
Eddying round and round the wigwam	J
Till the leaves went whirling with him	J
Till the dust and wind together	C
Swept in eddies round about him	J
Then along the sandy margin	G
Of the lake the Big Sea Water	C
On he sped with frenzied gestures	A
Stamped upon the sand and tossed it	I
Wildly in the air around him	J
Till the wind became a whirlwind	I
Till the sand was blown and sifted	I
Like great snowdrifts o'er the landscape	N
Heaping all the shores with Sand Dunes	A
Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo	H
Thus the merry Pau Puk Keewis	A
Danced his Beggar's Dance to please them	J
And returning sat down laughing	B
There among the guests assembled	I
Sat and fanned himself serenely	D
With his fan of turkey feathers	A
Then they said to Chibiabos	A
To the friend of Hiawatha	L
To the sweetest of all singers	A
To the best of all musicians	A
Sing to us O Chibiabos	A
Songs of love and songs of longing	B
That the feast may be more joyous	A
That the time may pass more gayly	D
And our guests be more contented	I
And the gentle Chibiabos	A
Sang in accents sweet and tender	C
Sang in tones of deep emotion	G
Songs of love and songs of longing	B
Looking still at Hiawatha	L
Looking at fair Laughing Water	C
Sang he softly sang in this wise	A
Onaway Awake beloved	I
Thou the wild flower of the forest	I
Thou the wild bird of the prairie	D
Thou with eyes so soft and fawn like	B
If thou only lookest at me	D
I am happy I am happy	D
As the lilies of the prairie	D
When they feel the dew upon them	J
Sweet thy breath is as the fragrance	A
Of the wild flowers in the morning	B
As their fragrance is at evening	B
In the Moon when leaves are falling	B
Does not all the blood within me	D
Leap to meet thee leap to meet thee	D
As the springs to meet the sunshine	G
In the Moon when nights are brightest	I
Onaway my heart sings to thee	D
Sings with joy when thou art near me	D
As the sighing singing branches	A
In the pleasant Moon of Strawberries	A
When thou art not pleased beloved	I
Then my heart is sad and darkened	I
As the shining river darkens	A
When the clouds drop shadows on it	I
When thou smilest my beloved	I
Then my troubled heart is brightened	I
As in sunshine gleam the ripples	A
That the cold wind makes in rivers	A
Smiles the earth and smile the waters	A
Smile the cloudless skies above us	A
But I lose the way of smiling	B
When thou art no longer near me	D
I myself myself behold me	D
Blood of my beating heart behold me	D
Oh awake awake beloved	I
Onaway awake beloved	I
Thus the gentle Chibiabos	A
Sang his song of love and longing	B
And Iagoo the great boaster	D
He the marvellous story teller	D
He the friend of old Nokomis	A
Jealous of the sweet musician	G
Jealous of the applause they gave him	J
Saw in all the eyes around him	J
Saw in all their looks and gestures	A
That the wedding guests assembled	I
Longed to hear his pleasant stories	A
His immeasurable falsehoods	A
Very boastful was Iagoo	B
Never heard he an adventure	D
But himself had met a greater	D
Never any deed of daring	B
But himself had done a bolder	D
Never any marvellous story	D
But himself could tell a stranger	D
Would you listen to his boasting	B
Would you only give him credence	A
No one ever shot an arrow	D
Half so far and high as he had	I
Ever caught so many fishes	A
Ever killed so many reindeer	D
Ever trapped so many beaver	D
None could run so fast as he could	I
None could dive so deep as he could	I
None could swim so far as he could	I
None had made so many journeys	A
None had seen so many wonders	A
As this wonderful Iagoo	B
As this marvellous story teller	D
Thus his name became a by word	I
And a jest among the people	D
And whene'er a boastful hunter	D
Praised his own address too highly	D
Or a warrior home returning	B
Talked too much of his achievements	A
All his hearers cried Iagoo	B
Here's Iagoo come among us	A
He it was who carved the cradle	D
Of the little Hiawatha	L
Carved its framework out of linden	G
Bound it strong with reindeer sinews	A
He it was who taught him later	D
How to make his bows and arrows	A
How to make the bows of ash tree	D
And the arrows of the	L