Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEEEEEFEGEEEHEIJ KJLEFDKMNOEEIPHEAJJE QRAEJSEDEKHEATKUKKRA RRHVLKNKQDEWEEEEEERE NXMHYMZRNKEMEEA2EEEZ AREAEEEB2KMC2KHEKMR

Should you ask meA
whence these storiesB
Whence these legends and traditionsC
With the odors of the forestD
With the dew and damp of meadowsE
With the curling smoke of wigwamsE
With the rushing of great riversE
With their frequent repetitionsE
And their wild reverberationsE
As of thunder in the mountainsE
I should answer I should tell youF
From the forests and the prairiesE
From the great lakes of the NorthlandG
From the land of the OjibwaysE
From the land of the DacotahsE
From the mountains moors and fen landsE
Where the heron the Shuh shuh gahH
Feeds among the reeds and rushesE
I repeat them as I heard themI
From the lips of NawadahaJ
The musician the sweet singerK
Should you ask where NawadahaJ
Found these songs so wild and waywardL
Found these legends and traditionsE
I should answer I should tell youF
In the bird's nests of the forestD
In the lodges of the beaverK
In the hoofprint of the bisonM
In the eyry of the eagleN
All the wild fowl sang them to himO
In the moorlands and the fen landsE
In the melancholy marshesE
Chetowaik the plover sang themI
Mahng the loon the wild goose WawaP
The blue heron the Shuh shuh gahH
And the grouse the MushkodasaE
If still further you should ask meA
Saying Who was NawadahaJ
Tell us of this NawadahaJ
I should answer your inquiriesE
Straightway in such words as followQ
In the vale of TawasenthaR
In the green and silent valleyA
By the pleasant water coursesE
Dwelt the singer NawadahaJ
Round about the Indian villageS
Spread the meadows and the corn fieldsE
And beyond them stood the forestD
Stood the groves of singing pine treesE
Green in Summer white in WinterK
Ever sighing ever singingH
And the pleasant water coursesE
You could trace them through the valleyA
By the rushing in the Spring timeT
By the alders in the SummerK
By the white fog in the AutumnU
By the black line in the WinterK
And beside them dwelt the singerK
In the vale of TawasenthaR
In the green and silent valleyA
There he sang of HiawathaR
Sang the Song of HiawathaR
Sang his wondrous birth and beingH
How he prayed and how be fastedV
How he lived and toiled and sufferedL
That the tribes of men might prosperK
That he might advance his peopleN
Ye who love the haunts of NatureK
Love the sunshine of the meadowQ
Love the shadow of the forestD
Love the wind among the branchesE
And the rain shower and the snow stormW
And the rushing of great riversE
Through their palisades of pine treesE
And the thunder in the mountainsE
Whose innumerable echoesE
Flap like eagles in their eyriesE
Listen to these wild traditionsE
To this Song of HiawathaR
Ye who love a nation's legendsE
Love the ballads of a peopleN
That like voices from afar offX
Call to us to pause and listenM
Speak in tones so plain and childlikeH
Scarcely can the ear distinguishY
Whether they are sung or spokenM
Listen to this Indian LegendZ
To this Song of HiawathaR
Ye whose hearts are fresh and simpleN
Who have faith in God and NatureK
Who believe that in all agesE
Every human heart is humanM
That in even savage bosomsE
There are longings yearnings strivingsE
For the good they comprehend notA2
That the feeble hands and helplessE
Groping blindly in the darknessE
Touch God's right hand in that darknessE
And are lifted up and strengthenedZ
Listen to this simple storyA
To this Song of HiawathaR
Ye who sometimes in your ramblesE
Through the green lanes of the countryA
Where the tangled barberry bushesE
Hang their tufts of crimson berriesE
Over stone walls gray with mossesE
Pause by some neglected graveyardB2
For a while to muse and ponderK
On a half effaced inscriptionM
Written with little skill of song craftC2
Homely phrases but each letterK
Full of hope and yet of heart breakH
Full of all the tender pathosE
Of the Here and the HereafterK
Stay and read this rude inscriptionM
Read this Song of HiawathaR

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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