Hiawatha's Hunting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBECB DDCFGB ACCHIB DJKIIF CDLMNAONDLA GOPLLILOOD LIIBLLCC CBCILBFC| Forth into the forest straightway | A |
| All alone walked Hiawatha | B |
| Proudly with his bow and arrows | C |
| And the birds sang round him o'er him | D |
| Do not shoot us Hiawatha | B |
| Sang the robin the Opechee | E |
| Sang the blue bird the Owaissa | C |
| Do not shoot us Hiawatha | B |
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| Up the oak tree close beside him | D |
| Sprang the squirrel Adjidaumo | D |
| In and out among the branches | C |
| Coughed and chattered from the oak tree | F |
| Laughed and said between his laughing | G |
| Do not shoot me Hiawatha | B |
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| And the rabbit from his pathway | A |
| Leaped aside and at a distance | C |
| Sat erect upon his haunches | C |
| Half in fear and half in frolic | H |
| Saying to the little hunter | I |
| Do not shoot me Hiawatha | B |
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| But he heeded not nor heard them | D |
| For his thoughts were with the red deer | J |
| On their tracks his eyes were fastened | K |
| Leading downward to the river | I |
| To the ford across the river | I |
| And as one in slumber walked he | F |
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| Hidden in the alder bushes | C |
| There he waited till the deer came | D |
| Till he saw two antlers lifted | L |
| Saw two eyes look from the thicket | M |
| Saw two nostrils point to windward | N |
| And a deer came down the pathway | A |
| Flecked with leafy light and shadow | O |
| And his heart within him fluttered | N |
| Trembled like the leaves above him | D |
| Like the birch leaf palpitated | L |
| As the deer came down the pathway | A |
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| Then upon one knee uprising | G |
| Hiawatha aimed an arrow | O |
| Scarce a twig moved with his motion | P |
| Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled | L |
| But the wary roebuck started | L |
| Stamped with all his hoofs together | I |
| Listened with one foot uplifted | L |
| Leaped as if to meet the arrow | O |
| Ah the singing fatal arrow | O |
| Like a wasp it buzzed and stung him | D |
| - | |
| Dead he lay there in the forest | L |
| By the ford across the river | I |
| Beat his timid heart no longer | I |
| But the heart of Hiawatha | B |
| Throbbed and shouted and exulted | L |
| As he bore the red deer homeward | L |
| And Iagoo and Nokomis | C |
| Hailed his coming with applauses | C |
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| From the red deer's hide Nokomis | C |
| Made a cloak for Hiawatha | B |
| From the red deer's flesh Nokomis | C |
| Made a banquet in his honor | I |
| All the village came and feasted | L |
| All the guests praised Hiawatha | B |
| Called him Strong heart Soan ge taha | F |
| Called him Loon Heart Mahn go taysee | C |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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