The Song Of Hiawatha Ii: The Four Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHFFFFIFJKJFF DLLFFMFNOHPJCFQRCFFJ RFCSKRTKUUFTCKMVANHP RKHFFATFEKRRFARREREF TMRMFWSRXKRJYJFMJRYM KFMYFYYZJFRMWRFRKMFF DRKDFMMMMFFFYDYYMYFY YMFMFFYKKYFFKJFFYFMW FYYMYA2AMMYYWHYYYKJZ MMAYKFJMMYKYYFWFFMB2 FYKMHFFKKKJYFKYFMKKY RFYKKMAFYRKF'Honor be to Mudjekeewis ' | A |
Cried the warriors cried the old men | B |
When he came in triumph homeward | C |
With the sacred Belt of Wampum | D |
From the regions of the North Wind | E |
From the kingdom of Wabasso | F |
From the land of the White Rabbit | G |
He had stolen the Belt of Wampum | D |
From the neck of Mishe Mokwa | H |
From the Great Bear of the mountains | F |
From the terror of the nations | F |
As he lay asleep and cumbrous | F |
On the summit of the mountains | F |
Like a rock with mosses on it | I |
Spotted brown and gray with mosses | F |
Silently he stole upon him | J |
Till the red nails of the monster | K |
Almost touched him almost scared him | J |
Till the hot breath of his nostrils | F |
Warmed the hands of Mudjekeewis | F |
As he drew the Belt of Wampum | D |
Over the round ears that heard not | L |
Over the small eyes that saw not | L |
Over the long nose and nostrils | F |
The black muffle of the nostrils | F |
Out of which the heavy breathing | M |
Warmed the hands of Mudjekeewis | F |
Then he swung aloft his war club | N |
Shouted loud and long his war cry | O |
Smote the mighty Mishe Mokwa | H |
In the middle of the forehead | P |
Right between the eyes he smote him | J |
With the heavy blow bewildered | C |
Rose the Great Bear of the mountains | F |
But his knees beneath him trembled | Q |
And he whimpered like a woman | R |
As he reeled and staggered forward | C |
As he sat upon his haunches | F |
And the mighty Mudjekeewis | F |
Standing fearlessly before him | J |
Taunted him in loud derision | R |
Spake disdainfully in this wise | F |
'Hark you Bear you are a coward | C |
And no Brave as you pretended | S |
Else you would not cry and whimper | K |
Like a miserable woman | R |
Bear you know our tribes are hostile | T |
Long have been at war together | K |
Now you find that we are strongest | U |
You go sneaking in the forest | U |
You go hiding in the mountains | F |
Had you conquered me in battle | T |
Not a groan would I have uttered | C |
But you Bear sit here and whimper | K |
And disgrace your tribe by crying | M |
Like a wretched Shaugodaya | V |
Like a cowardly old woman ' | A |
Then again he raised his war club | N |
Smote again the Mishe Mokwa | H |
In the middle of his forehead | P |
Broke his skull as ice is broken | R |
When one goes to fish in Winter | K |
Thus was slain the Mishe Mokwa | H |
He the Great Bear of the mountains | F |
He the terror of the nations | F |
'Honor be to Mudjekeewis ' | A |
With a shout exclaimed the people | T |
'Honor be to Mudjekeewis | F |
Henceforth he shall be the West Wind | E |
And hereafter and forever | K |
Shall he hold supreme dominion | R |
Over all the winds of heaven | R |
Call him no more Mudjekeewis | F |
Call him Kabeyun the West Wind ' | A |
Thus was Mudjekeewis chosen | R |
Father of the Winds of Heaven | R |
For himself he kept the West Wind | E |
Gave the others to his children | R |
Unto Wabun gave the East Wind | E |
Gave the South to Shawondasee | F |
And the North Wind wild and cruel | T |
To the fierce Kabibonokka | M |
Young and beautiful was Wabun | R |
He it was who brought the morning | M |
He it was whose silver arrows | F |
Chased the dark o'er hill and valley | W |
He it was whose cheeks were painted | S |
With the brightest streaks of crimson | R |
And whose voice awoke the village | X |
Called the deer and called the hunter | K |
Lonely in the sky was Wabun | R |
Though the birds sang gayly to him | J |
Though the wild flowers of the meadow | Y |
Filled the air with odors for him | J |
Though the forests and the rivers | F |
Sang and shouted at his coming | M |
Still his heart was sad within him | J |
For he was alone in heaven | R |
But one morning gazing earthward | Y |
While the village still was sleeping | M |
And the fog lay on the river | K |
Like a ghost that goes at sunrise | F |
He beheld a maiden walking | M |
All alone upon a meadow | Y |
Gathering water flags and rushes | F |
By a river in the meadow | Y |
Every morning gazing earthward | Y |
Still the first thing he beheld there | Z |
Was her blue eyes looking at him | J |
Two blue lakes among the rushes | F |
And he loved the lonely maiden | R |
Who thus waited for his coming | M |
For they both were solitary | W |
She on earth and he in heaven | R |
And he wooed her with caresses | F |
Wooed her with his smile of sunshine | R |
With his flattering words he wooed her | K |
With his sighing and his singing | M |
Gentlest whispers in the branches | F |
Softest music sweetest odors | F |
Till he drew her to his bosom | D |
Folded in his robes of crimson | R |
Till into a star he changed her | K |
Trembling still upon his bosom | D |
And forever in the heavens | F |
They are seen together walking | M |
Wabun and the Wabun Annung | M |
Wabun and the Star of Morning | M |
But the fierce Kabibonokka | M |
Had his dwelling among icebergs | F |
In the everlasting snow drifts | F |
In the kingdom of Wabasso | F |
In the land of the White Rabbit | Y |
He it was whose hand in Autumn | D |
Painted all the trees with scarlet | Y |
Stained the leaves with red and yellow | Y |
He it was who sent the snow flake | M |
Sifting hissing through the forest | Y |
Froze the ponds the lakes the rivers | F |
Drove the loon and sea gull southward | Y |
Drove the cormorant and curlew | Y |
To their nests of sedge and sea tang | M |
In the realms of Shawondasee | F |
Once the fierce Kabibonokka | M |
Issued from his lodge of snow drifts | F |
From his home among the icebergs | F |
And his hair with snow besprinkled | Y |
Streamed behind him like a river | K |
Like a black and wintry river | K |
As he howled and hurried southward | Y |
Over frozen lakes and moorlands | F |
There among the reeds and rushes | F |
Found he Shingebis the diver | K |
Trailing strings of fish behind him | J |
O'er the frozen fens and moorlands | F |
Lingering still among the moorlands | F |
Though his tribe had long departed | Y |
To the land of Shawondasee | F |
Cried the fierce Kabibonokka | M |
'Who is this that dares to brave me | W |
Dares to stay in my dominions | F |
When the Wawa has departed | Y |
When the wild goose has gone southward | Y |
And the heron the Shuh shuh gah | M |
Long ago departed southward | Y |
I will go into his wigwam | A2 |
I will put his smouldering fire out ' | A |
And at night Kabibonokka | M |
To the lodge came wild and wailing | M |
Heaped the snow in drifts about it | Y |
Shouted down into the smoke flue | Y |
Shook the lodge poles in his fury | W |
Flapped the curtain of the door way | H |
Shingebis the diver feared not | Y |
Shingebis the diver cared not | Y |
Four great logs had he for firewood | Y |
One for each moon of the winter | K |
And for food the fishes served him | J |
By his blazing fire he sat there | Z |
Warm and merry eating laughing | M |
Singing 'O Kabibonokka | M |
You are but my fellow mortal ' | A |
Then Kabibonokka entered | Y |
And though Shingebis the diver | K |
Felt his presence by the coldness | F |
Felt his icy breath upon him | J |
Still he did not cease his singing | M |
Still he did not leave his laughing | M |
Only turned the log a little | Y |
Only made the fire burn brighter | K |
Made the sparks fly up the smoke flue | Y |
From Kabibonokka's forehead | Y |
From his snow besprinkled tresses | F |
Drops of sweat fell fast and heavy | W |
Making dints upon the ashes | F |
As along the eaves of lodges | F |
As from drooping boughs of hemlock | M |
Drips the melting snow in spring time | B2 |
Making hollows in the snow drifts | F |
Till at last he rose defeated | Y |
Could not bear the heat and laughter | K |
Could not bear the merry singing | M |
But rushed headlong through the door way | H |
Stamped upon the crusted snow drifts | F |
Stamped upon the lakes and rivers | F |
Made the snow upon them harder | K |
Made the ice upon them thicker | K |
Challenged Shingebis the diver | K |
To come forth and wrestle with him | J |
To come forth and wrestle naked | Y |
On the frozen fens and moorlands | F |
Forth went Shingebis the diver | K |
Wrestled all night with the North Wind | Y |
Wrestled naked on the moorlands | F |
With the fierce Kabibonokka | M |
Till his panting breath grew fainter | K |
Till his frozen grasp grew feebler | K |
Till he reeled and staggered backward | Y |
And retreated baffled beaten | R |
To the kingdom of Wabasso | F |
To the land of the White Rabbit | Y |
Hearing still the gusty laughter | K |
Hearing Shingebis the diver | K |
Singing 'O Kabibonokka | M |
You are but my fellow mortal ' | A |
Shawondasee fat and lazy | F |
Had his dwelling far to southward | Y |
In the drowsy dreamy sunshine | R |
In the never ending Summer | K |
He it was | F |
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