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The Hunting Of Pau-puk Keewis, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Full of wrath was Hiawatha	A
When he came into the village	B
Found the people in confusion	C
Heard of all the misdemeanors	D
All the malice and the mischief	E
Of the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Hard his breath came through his nostrils	D
Through his teeth he buzzed and muttered	F
Words of anger and resentment	G
Hot and humming like a hornet	H
'I will slay this Pau Puk Keewis	D
Slay this mischief maker ' said he	I
'Not so long and wide the world is	D
Not so rude and rough the way is	D
That my wrath shall not attain him	J
That my vengeance shall not reach him '	K
Then in swift pursuit departed	L
Hiawatha and the hunters	D
On the trail of Pau Puk Keewis	D
Through the forest where he passed it	H
To the headlands where he rested	L
But they found not Pau Puk Keewis	D
Only in the trampled grasses	D
In the whortleberry bushes	D
Found the couch where he had rested	L
Found the impress of his body	I
From the lowlands far beneath them	M
From the Muskoday the meadow	N
Pau Puk Keewis turning backward	F
Made a gesture of defiance	D
Made a gesture of derision	C
And aloud cried Hiawatha	A
From the summit of the mountains	D
'Not so long and wide the world is	D
Not so rude and rough the way is	D
But my wrath shall overtake you	O
And my vengeance shall attain you '	K
Over rock and over river	P
Through bush and brake and forest	Q
Ran the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Like an antelope he bounded	L
Till he came unto a streamlet	L
In the middle of the forest	L
To a streamlet still and tranquil	R
That had overflowed its margin	C
To a dam made by the beavers	D
To a pond of quiet water	P
Where knee deep the trees were standing	S
Where the water lilies floated	L
Where the rushes waved and whispered	L
On the dam stood Pau Puk Keewis	D
On the dam of trunks and branches	D
Through whose chinks the water spouted	L
O'er whose summit flowed the streamlet	L
From the bottom rose the beaver	P
Looked with two great eyes of wonder	P
Eyes that seemed to ask a question	C
At the stranger Pau Puk Keewis	D
On the dam stood Pau Puk Keewis	D
O'er his ankles flowed the streamlet	L
Flowed the bright and silvery water	P
And he spake unto the beaver	P
With a smile he spake in this wise	D
'O my friend Ahmeek the beaver	P
Cool and pleasant Is the water	P
Let me dive into the water	P
Let me rest there in your lodges	D
Change me too into a beaver '	K
Cautiously replied the beaver	P
With reserve he thus made answer	P
'Let me first consult the others	D
Let me ask the other beavers '	K
Down he sank into the water	P
Heavily sank he as a stone sinks	D
Down among the leaves and branches	D
Brown and matted at the bottom	T
On the dam stood Pau Puk Keewis	D
O'er his ankles flowed the streamlet	L
Spouted through the chinks below him	J
Dashed upon the stones beneath him	J
Spread serene and calm before him	J
And the sunshine and the shadows	D
Fell in flecks and gleams upon him	J
Fell in little shining patches	D
Through the waving rustling branches	D
From the bottom rose the beavers	D
Silently above the surface	D
Rose one head and then another	P
Till the pond seemed full of beavers	D
Full of black and shining faces	D
To the beavers Pau Puk Keewis	D
Spake entreating said in this wise	D
'Very pleasant Is your dwelling	S
O my friends and safe from danger	P
Can you not with all your cunning	S
All your wisdom and contrivance	D
Change me too into a beaver '	K
'Yes ' replied Ahmeek the beaver	P
He the King of all the beavers	D
'Let yourself slide down among us	D
Down into the tranquil water '	K
Down into the pond among them	M
Silently sank Pau Puk Keewis	D
Black became his shirt of deer skin	U
Black his moccasins and leggings	D
In a broad black tail behind him	J
Spread his fox tails and his fringes	D
He was changed into a beaver	P
'Make me large ' said Pau Puk Keewis	D
'Make me large and make me larger	P
Larger than the other beavers '	K
'Yes ' the beaver chief responded	L
'When our lodge below you enter	P
In our wigwam we will make you	O
Ten times larger than the others '	K
Thus into the clear brown water	P
Silently sank Pau Puk Keewis	D
Found the bottom covered over	P
With the trunks of trees and branches	D
Hoards of food against the winter	P
Piles and heaps against the famine	C
Found the lodge with arching doorway	V
Leading into spacious chambers	D
Here they made him large and larger	P
Made him largest of the beavers	D
Ten times larger than the others	D
'You shall be our ruler ' said they	V
'Chief and King of all the beavers '	K
But not long had Pau Puk Keewis	D
Sat in state among the beavers	D
When there came a voice of warning	S
From the watchman at his station	C
In the water flags and lilies	D
Saying 'Here Is Hiawatha	A
Hiawatha with his hunters '	K
Then they heard a cry above them	M
Heard a shouting and a tramping	S
Heard a crashing and a rushing	S
And the water round and o'er them	M
Sank and sucked away in eddies	D
And they knew their dam was broken	C
On the lodge's roof the hunters	D
Leaped and broke it all asunder	P
Streamed the sunshine through the crevice	D
Sprang the beavers through the doorway	V
Hid themselves in deeper water	P
In the channel of the streamlet	L
But the mighty Pau Puk Keewis	D
Could not pass beneath the doorway	V
He was puffed with pride and feeding	S
He was swollen like a bladder	P
Through the roof looked Hiawatha	A
Cried aloud 'O Pau Puk Keewis	D
Vain are all your craft and cunning	S
Vain your manifold disguises	D
Well I know you Pau Puk Keewis '	K
With their clubs they beat and bruised him	J
Beat to death poor Pau Puk Keewis	D
Pounded him as maize is pounded	L
Till his skull was crushed to pieces	D
Six tall hunters lithe and limber	P
Bore him home on poles and branches	D
Bore the body of the beaver	P
But the ghost the Jeebi in him	J
Thought and felt as Pau Puk Keewis	D
Still lived on as Pau Puk Keewis	D
And it fluttered strove and struggled	L
Waving hither waving thither	P
As the curtains of a wigwam	W
Struggle with their thongs of deer skin	U
When the wintry wind is blowing	S
Till it drew itself together	P
Till it rose up from the body	L
Till it took the form and features	D
Of the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Vanishing into the forest	L
But the wary Hiawatha	A
Saw the figure ere it vanished	L
Saw the form of Pau Puk Keewis	D
Glide into the soft blue shadow	L
Of the pine trees of the forest	L
Toward the squares of white beyond it	L
Toward an opening in the forest	L
Like a wind it rushed and panted	L
Bending all the boughs before it	L
And behind it as the rain comes	D
Came the steps of Hiawatha	A
To a lake with many islands	D
Came the breathless Pau Puk Keewis	D
Where among the water lilies	D
Pishnekuh the brant were sailing	S
Through the tufts of rushes floating	S
Steering through the reedy Islands	D
Now their broad black beaks they lifted	L
Now they plunged beneath the water	P
Now they darkened in the shadow	L
Now they brightened in the sunshine	X
'Pishnekuh ' cried Pau Puk Keewis	D
'Pishnekuh my brothers ' said he	L
'Change me to a brant with plumage	B
With a shining neck and feathers	D
Make me large and make me larger	P
Ten times larger than the others '	K
Straightway to a brant they changed him	J
With two huge and dusky pinions	D
With a bosom smooth and rounded	L
With a bill like two great paddles	D
Made him larger than the others	D
Ten times larger than the largest	L
Just as shouting from the forest	L
On the shore stood Hiawatha	A
Up they rose with cry and clamor	P
With a whir and beat of pinions	D
Rose up from the reedy Islands	D
From the water flags and lilies	D
And they said to Pau Puk Keewis	D
'In your flying look not downward	L
Take good heed and look not downward	L
Lest some strange mischance should happen	C
Lest some great mishap befall you '	K
Fast and far they fled to northward	L
Fast and far through mist and sunshine	X
Fed among the moors and fen lands	D
Slept among the reeds and rushes	D
On the morrow as they journeyed	L
Buoyed and lifted by the South wind	L
Wafted onward by the South wind	L
Blowing fresh and strong behind them	M
Rose a sound of human voices	D
Rose a clamor from beneath them	M
From the lodges of a village	B
From the people miles beneath them	M
For the p	L