The Song Of Hiawatha: Introduction And Vocabulary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDDDD EDFDDDGDHI IJDECKLM NDDHOG PI DQ RPDISDCDKG DPTKUKKRP RRGVJK KQCDWDDDDDDR DMXLGYLZRMKDLDDA2DDD ZPR DPDDDB2KLC2KGDKLRShould you ask me whence these stories | A |
Whence these legends and traditions | B |
With the odors of the forest | C |
With the dew and damp of meadows | D |
With the curling smoke of wigwams | D |
With the rushing of great rivers | D |
With their frequent repetitions | D |
And their wild reverberations | D |
As of thunder in the mountains | D |
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I should answer I should tell you | E |
'From the forests and the prairies | D |
From the great lakes of the Northland | F |
From the land of the Ojibways | D |
From the land of the Dacotahs | D |
From the mountains moors and fen lands | D |
Where the heron the Shuh shuh gah | G |
Feeds among the reeds and rushes | D |
I repeat them as I heard them | H |
From the lips of Nawadaha | I |
The musician the sweet singer ' | - |
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Should you ask where Nawadaha | I |
Found these songs so wild and wayward | J |
Found these legends and traditions | D |
I should answer I should tell you | E |
'In the bird's nests of the forest | C |
In the lodges of the beaver | K |
In the hoofprint of the bison | L |
In the eyry of the eagle | M |
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'All the wild fowl sang them to him | N |
In the moorlands and the fen lands | D |
In the melancholy marshes | D |
Chetowaik the plover sang them | H |
Mahng the loon the wild goose Wawa | O |
The blue heron the Shuh shuh gah | G |
And the grouse the Mushkodasa ' | - |
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If still further you should ask me | P |
Saying 'Who was Nawadaha | I |
Tell us of this Nawadaha ' | - |
I should answer your inquiries | D |
Straightway in such words as follow | Q |
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'In the vale of Tawasentha | R |
In the green and silent valley | P |
By the pleasant water courses | D |
Dwelt the singer Nawadaha | I |
Round about the Indian village | S |
Spread the meadows and the corn fields | D |
And beyond them stood the forest | C |
Stood the groves of singing pine trees | D |
Green in Summer white in Winter | K |
Ever sighing ever singing | G |
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'And the pleasant water courses | D |
You could trace them through the valley | P |
By the rushing in the Spring time | T |
By the alders in the Summer | K |
By the white fog in the Autumn | U |
By the black line in the Winter | K |
And beside them dwelt the singer | K |
In the vale of Tawasentha | R |
In the green and silent valley | P |
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'There he sang of Hiawatha | R |
Sang the Song of Hiawatha | R |
Sang his wondrous birth and being | G |
How he prayed and how be fasted | V |
How he lived and toiled and suffered | J |
That the tribes of men might prosper | K |
That he might advance his people ' | - |
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Ye who love the haunts of Nature | K |
Love the sunshine of the meadow | Q |
Love the shadow of the forest | C |
Love the wind among the branches | D |
And the rain shower and the snow storm | W |
And the rushing of great rivers | D |
Through their palisades of pine trees | D |
And the thunder in the mountains | D |
Whose innumerable echoes | D |
Flap like eagles in their eyries | D |
Listen to these wild traditions | D |
To this Song of Hiawatha | R |
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Ye who love a nation's legends | D |
Love the ballads of a people | M |
That like voices from afar off | X |
Call to us to pause and listen | L |
Speak in tones so plain and childlike | G |
Scarcely can the ear distinguish | Y |
Whether they are sung or spoken | L |
Listen to this Indian Legend | Z |
To this Song of Hiawatha | R |
Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple | M |
Who have faith in God and Nature | K |
Who believe that in all ages | D |
Every human heart is human | L |
That in even savage bosoms | D |
There are longings yearnings strivings | D |
For the good they comprehend not | A2 |
That the feeble hands and helpless | D |
Groping blindly in the darkness | D |
Touch God's right hand in that darkness | D |
And are lifted up and strengthened | Z |
Listen to this simple story | P |
To this Song of Hiawatha | R |
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Ye who sometimes in your rambles | D |
Through the green lanes of the country | P |
Where the tangled barberry bushes | D |
Hang their tufts of crimson berries | D |
Over stone walls gray with mosses | D |
Pause by some neglected graveyard | B2 |
For a while to muse and ponder | K |
On a half effaced inscription | L |
Written with little skill of song craft | C2 |
Homely phrases but each letter | K |
Full of hope and yet of heart break | G |
Full of all the tender pathos | D |
Of the Here and the Hereafter | K |
Stay and read this rude inscription | L |
Read this Song of Hiawatha | R |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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