The Song Of Hiawatha Iv: Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECBFCFBGCHIIIJKK LICJGCCMKKFCCCKNOBHC PCPAQCCILCBNCROBHSGF FFCCFCGFITUUCGCGCCIB KUCCGCCBFBIFBGVUUGIO KGCCCWUBHGCFFCCVOCHH KOBGXGKBVOBIHHKOHYKK OCOCCGCHKIGCGCIGGCOC CZGBKHGIKCKCFCGFCKGA 2CGYBGCXXJJGYGHGXCCO CCCHBGGKCHB2CCBGXXWK XJGCCCCA2CVHCVGIBOut of childhood into manhood | A |
Now had grown my Hiawatha | B |
Skilled in all the craft of hunters | C |
Learned in all the lore of old men | D |
In all youthful sports and pastimes | E |
In all manly arts and labors | C |
Swift of foot was Hiawatha | B |
He could shoot an arrow from him | F |
And run forward with such fleetness | C |
That the arrow fell behind him | F |
Strong of arm was Hiawatha | B |
He could shoot ten arrows upward | G |
Shoot them with such strength and swiftness | C |
That the tenth had left the bow string | H |
Ere the first to earth had fallen | I |
He had mittens Minjekahwun | I |
Magic mittens made of deer skin | I |
When upon his hands he wore them | J |
He could smite the rocks asunder | K |
He could grind them into powder | K |
He had moccasins enchanted | L |
Magic moccasins of deer skin | I |
When he bound them round his ankles | C |
When upon his feet he tied them | J |
At each stride a mile he measured | G |
Much he questioned old Nokomis | C |
Of his father Mudjekeewis | C |
Learned from her the fatal secret | M |
Of the beauty of his mother | K |
Of the falsehood of his father | K |
And his heart was hot within him | F |
Like a living coal his heart was | C |
Then he said to old Nokomis | C |
'I will go to Mudjekeewis | C |
See how fares it with my father | K |
At the doorways of the West Wind | N |
At the portals of the Sunset ' | O |
From his lodge went Hiawatha | B |
Dressed for travel armed for hunting | H |
Dressed in deer skin shirt and leggings | C |
Richly wrought with quills and wampum | P |
On his head his eagle feathers | C |
Round his waist his belt of wampum | P |
In his hand his bow of ash wood | A |
Strung with sinews of the reindeer | Q |
In his quiver oaken arrows | C |
Tipped with jasper winged with feathers | C |
With his mittens Minjekahwun | I |
With his moccasins enchanted | L |
Warning said the old Nokomis | C |
'Go not forth O Hiawatha | B |
To the kingdom of the West Wind | N |
To the realms of Mudjekeewis | C |
Lest he harm you with his magic | R |
Lest he kill you with his cunning ' | O |
But the fearless Hiawatha | B |
Heeded not her woman's warning | H |
Forth he strode into the forest | S |
At each stride a mile he measured | G |
Lurid seemed the sky above him | F |
Lurid seemed the earth beneath him | F |
Hot and close the air around him | F |
Filled with smoke and fiery vapors | C |
As of burning woods and prairies | C |
For his heart was hot within him | F |
Like a living coal his heart was | C |
So he journeyed westward westward | G |
Left the fleetest deer behind him | F |
Left the antelope and bison | I |
Crossed the rushing Esconaba | T |
Crossed the mighty Mississippi | U |
Passed the Mountains of the Prairie | U |
Passed the land of Crows and Foxes | C |
Passed the dwellings of the Blackfeet | G |
Came unto the Rocky Mountains | C |
To the kingdom of the West Wind | G |
Where upon the gusty summits | C |
Sat the ancient Mudjekeewis | C |
Ruler of the winds of heaven | I |
Filled with awe was Hiawatha | B |
At the aspect of his father | K |
On the air about him wildly | U |
Tossed and streamed his cloudy tresses | C |
Gleamed like drifting snow his tresses | C |
Glared like Ishkoodah the comet | G |
Like the star with fiery tresses | C |
Filled with joy was Mudjekeewis | C |
When he looked on Hiawatha | B |
Saw his youth rise up before him | F |
In the face of Hiawatha | B |
Saw the beauty of Wenonah | I |
From the grave rise up before him | F |
'Welcome ' said he 'Hiawatha | B |
To the kingdom of the West Wind | G |
Long have I been waiting for you | V |
Youth is lovely age is lonely | U |
Youth is fiery age is frosty | U |
You bring back the days departed | G |
You bring back my youth of passion | I |
And the beautiful Wenonah ' | O |
Many days they talked together | K |
Questioned listened waited answered | G |
Much the mighty Mudjekeewis | C |
Boasted of his ancient prowess | C |
Of his perilous adventures | C |
His indomitable courage | W |
His invulnerable body | U |
Patiently sat Hiawatha | B |
Listening to his father's boasting | H |
With a smile he sat and listened | G |
Uttered neither threat nor menace | C |
Neither word nor look betrayed him | F |
But his heart was hot within him | F |
Like a living coal his heart was | C |
Then he said 'O Mudjekeewis | C |
Is there nothing that can harm you | V |
Nothing that you are afraid of ' | O |
And the mighty Mudjekeewis | C |
Grand and gracious in his boasting | H |
Answered saying 'There is nothing | H |
Nothing but the black rock yonder | K |
Nothing but the fatal Wawbeek ' | O |
And he looked at Hiawatha | B |
With a wise look and benignant | G |
With a countenance paternal | X |
Looked with pride upon the beauty | G |
Of his tall and graceful figure | K |
Saying 'O my Hiawatha | B |
Is there anything can harm you | V |
Anything you are afraid of ' | O |
But the wary Hiawatha | B |
Paused awhile as if uncertain | I |
Held his peace as if resolving | H |
And then answered 'There is nothing | H |
Nothing but the bulrush yonder | K |
Nothing but the great Apukwa ' | O |
And as Mudjekeewis rising | H |
Stretched his hand to pluck the bulrush | Y |
Hiawatha cried in terror | K |
Cried in well dissembled terror | K |
'Kago kago do not touch it ' | O |
'Ah kaween ' said Mudjekeewis | C |
'No indeed I will not touch it ' | O |
Then they talked of other matters | C |
First of Hiawatha's brothers | C |
First of Wabun of the East Wind | G |
Of the South Wind Shawondasee | C |
Of the North Kabibonokka | H |
Then of Hiawatha's mother | K |
Of the beautiful Wenonah | I |
Of her birth upon the meadow | G |
Of her death as old Nokomis | C |
Had remembered and related | G |
And he cried 'O Mudjekeewis | C |
It was you who killed Wenonah | I |
Took her young life and her beauty | G |
Broke the Lily of the Prairie | G |
Trampled it beneath your footsteps | C |
You confess it you confess it ' | O |
And the mighty Mudjekeewis | C |
Tossed upon the wind his tresses | C |
Bowed his hoary head in anguish | Z |
With a silent nod assented | G |
Then up started Hiawatha | B |
And with threatening look and gesture | K |
Laid his hand upon the black rock | H |
On the fatal Wawbeek laid it | G |
With his mittens Minjekahwun | I |
Rent the jutting crag asunder | K |
Smote and crushed it into fragments | C |
Hurled them madly at his father | K |
The remorseful Mudjekeewis | C |
For his heart was hot within him | F |
Like a living coal his heart was | C |
But the ruler of the West Wind | G |
Blew the fragments backward from him | F |
With the breathing of his nostrils | C |
With the tempest of his anger | K |
Blew them back at his assailant | G |
Seized the bulrush the Apukwa | A2 |
Dragged it with its roots and fibres | C |
From the margin of the meadow | G |
From its ooze the giant bulrush | Y |
Long and loud laughed Hiawatha | B |
Then began the deadly conflict | G |
Hand to hand among the mountains | C |
From his eyry screamed the eagle | X |
The Keneu the great war eagle | X |
Sat upon the crags around them | J |
Wheeling flapped his wings above them | J |
Like a tall tree in the tempest | G |
Bent and lashed the giant bulrush | Y |
And in masses huge and heavy | G |
Crashing fell the fatal Wawbeek | H |
Till the earth shook with the tumult | G |
And confusion of the battle | X |
And the air was full of shoutings | C |
And the thunder of the mountains | C |
Starting answered 'Baim wawa ' | O |
Back retreated Mudjekeewis | C |
Rushing westward o'er the mountains | C |
Stumbling westward down the mountains | C |
Three whole days retreated fighting | H |
Still pursued by Hiawatha | B |
To the doorways of the West Wind | G |
To the portals of the Sunset | G |
To the earth's remotest border | K |
Where into the empty spaces | C |
Sinks the sun as a flamingo | H |
Drops into her nest at nightfall | B2 |
In the melancholy marshes | C |
'Hold ' at length cried Mudjekeewis | C |
'Hold my son my Hiawatha | B |
'T is impossible to kill me | G |
For you cannot kill the immortal | X |
I have put you to this trial | X |
But to know and prove your courage | W |
Now receive the prize of valor | K |
'Go back to your home and people | X |
Live among them toil among them | J |
Cleanse the earth from all that harms it | G |
Clear the fishing grounds and rivers | C |
Slay all monsters and magicians | C |
All the Wendigoes the giants | C |
All the serpents the Kenabeeks | C |
As I slew the Mishe Mokwa | A2 |
Slew the Great Bear of the mountains | C |
'And at last when Death draws near you | V |
When the awful eyes of Pauguk | H |
Glare upon you in the darkness | C |
I will share my kingdom with you | V |
Ruler shall you be thenceforward | G |
Of the Northwest Wind Keewaydin | I |
Of the | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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