The Song Of Hiawatha - Xvii - 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	J
Then in swift pursuit departed	K
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	K
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	K
Found the impress of his body	I
From the lowlands far beneath them	L
From the Muskoday the meadow	M
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	N
And my vengeance shall attain you	N
Over rock and over river	O
Through bush and brake and forest	P
Ran the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Like an antelope he bounded	K
Till he came unto a streamlet	K
In the middle of the forest	K
To a streamlet still and tranquil	Q
That had overflowed its margin	C
To a dam made by the beavers	D
To a pond of quiet water	O
Where knee deep the trees were standing	R
Where the water lilies floated	K
Where the rushes waved and whispered	K
On the dam stood Pau Puk Keewis	D
On the dam of trunks and branches	D
Through whose chinks the water spouted	K
O'er whose summit flowed the streamlet	K
From the bottom rose the beaver	O
Looked with two great eyes of wonder	O
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	K
Flowed the bright and silvery water	O
And he spake unto the beaver	O
With a smile he spake in this wise	D
O my friend Ahmeek the beaver	O
Cool and pleasant is the water	O
Let me dive into the water	O
Let me rest there in your lodges	D
Change me too into a beaver	O
Cautiously replied the beaver	O
With reserve he thus made answer	O
Let me first consult the others	D
Let me ask the other beavers	D
Down he sank into the water	O
Heavily sank he as a stone sinks	D
Down among the leaves and branches	D
Brown and matted at the bottom	S
On the dam stood Pau Puk Keewis	D
O'er his ankles flowed the streamlet	K
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	O
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	R
O my friends and safe from danger	O
Can you not with all your cunning	R
All your wisdom and contrivance	D
Change me too into a beaver	O
Yes replied Ahmeek the beaver	O
He the King of all the beavers	D
Let yourself slide down among us	D
Down into the tranquil water	O
Down into the pond among them	L
Silently sank Pau Puk Keewis	D
Black became his shirt of deer skin	T
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	O
Make me large said Pau Puk Keewis	D
Make me large and make me larger	O
Larger than the other beavers	D
Yes the beaver chief responded	K
When our lodge below you enter	O
In our wigwam we will make you	N
Ten times larger than the others	D
Thus into the clear brown water	O
Silently sank Pau Puk Keewis	D
Found the bottom covered over	O
With the trunks of trees and branches	D
Hoards of food against the winter	O
Piles and heaps against the famine	C
Found the lodge with arching doorway	U
Leading into spacious chambers	D
Here they made him large and larger	O
Made him largest of the beavers	D
Ten times larger than the others	D
You shall be our ruler said they	U
Chief and King of all the beavers	D
But not long had Pau Puk Keewis	D
Sat in state among the beavers	D
When there came a voice of warning	R
From the watchman at his station	C
In the water flags and lilies	D
Saying Here Is Hiawatha	A
Hiawatha with his hunters	D
Then they heard a cry above them	L
Heard a shouting and a tramping	R
Heard a crashing and a rushing	R
And the water round and o'er them	L
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	O
Streamed the sunshine through the crevice	D
Sprang the beavers through the doorway	U
Hid themselves in deeper water	O
In the channel of the streamlet	K
But the mighty Pau Puk Keewis	D
Could not pass beneath the doorway	U
He was puffed with pride and feeding	R
He was swollen like a bladder	O
Through the roof looked Hiawatha	A
Cried aloud O Pau Puk Keewis	D
Vain are all your craft and cunning	R
Vain your manifold disguises	D
Well I know you Pau Puk Keewis	D
With their clubs they beat and bruised him	J
Beat to death poor Pau Puk Keewis	D
Pounded him as maize is pounded	K
Till his skull was crushed to pieces	D
Six tall hunters lithe and limber	O
Bore him home on poles and branches	D
Bore the body of the beaver	O
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	K
Waving hither waving thither	O
As the curtains of a wigwam	V
Struggle with their thongs of deer skin	T
When the wintry wind is blowing	R
Till it drew itself together	O
Till it rose up from the body	K
Till it took the form and features	D
Of the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Vanishing into the forest	K
But the wary Hiawatha	A
Saw the figure ere it vanished	K
Saw the form of Pau Puk Keewis	D
Glide into the soft blue shadow	K
Of the pine trees of the forest	K
Toward the squares of white beyond it	K
Toward an opening in the forest	K
Like a wind it rushed and panted	K
Bending all the boughs before it	K
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	R
Through the tufts of rushes floating	R
Steering through the reedy islands	D
Now their broad black beaks they lifted	K
Now they plunged beneath the water	O
Now they darkened in the shadow	K
Now they brightened in the sunshine	W
Pishnekuh cried Pau Puk Keewis	D
Pishnekuh my brothers said he	K
Change me to a brant with plumage	B
With a shining neck and feathers	D
Make me large and make me larger	O
Ten times larger than the others	D
Straightway to a brant they changed him	J
With two huge and dusky pinions	D
With a bosom smooth and rounded	K
With a bill like two great paddles	D
Made him larger than the others	D
Ten times larger than the largest	K
Just as shouting from the forest	K
On the shore stood Hiawatha	A
Up they rose with cry and clamor	O
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	K
Take good heed and look not downward	K
Lest some strange mischance should happen	C
Lest some great mishap befall you	N
Fast and far they fled to northward	K
Fast and far through mist and sunshine	W
Fed among the moors and fen lands	D
Slept among the reeds and rushes	D
On the morrow as they journeyed	K
Buoyed and lifted by the South wind	K
Wafted onward by the South wind	K
Blowing fresh and strong behind them	L
Rose a sound of human voices	D
Rose a clamor from beneath them	L
From the lodges of a village	B
From the people miles beneath them	L
For the people of the village	B
Saw the flock of brant with wonder	O
Saw the wings of Pau Puk Keewis	D
Flapping far up in the ether	O
Broader than two doorway curtains	D
Pau Puk Keewis heard the shouting	R
Knew the voice of Hiawatha	A
Knew the outcry of Iagoo	R
And forgetful of the warning	R
Drew his neck in and looked downward	K
And the wind that blew behind him	J
Caught his mighty fan of feathers	D
Sent him wheeling whirling downward	K
All in vain did Pau Puk Keewis	D
Struggle to regain his balance	D
Whirling round and round and downward	K
He beheld in turn the village	B
And in turn the flock above him	J
Saw the village coming nearer	O
And the flock receding farther	O
Heard the voices growing louder	O
Heard the shouting and the laughter	O
Saw no more the flocks above him	J
Only saw the earth beneath him	J
Dead out of the empty heaven	C
Dead among the shouting people	Q
With a heavy sound and sullen	C
Fell the brant with broken pinions	D
But his soul his ghost his shadow	K
Still survived as Pau Puk Keewis	D
Took again the form and features	D
Of the handsome Yenadizze	D
And again went rushing onward	K
Followed fast by Hiawatha	A
Crying Not so wide the world is	D
Not so long and rough the way is	D
But my wrath shall overtake you	N
But my vengeance shall attain you	N
And so near he came so near him	J
That his hand was stretched to seize him	J
His right hand to seize and hold him	J
When the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Whirled and spun about in circles	D
Fanned the air into a whirlwind	K
Danced the dust and leaves about him	J
And amid the whirling eddies	D
Sprang into a hollow oak tree	K
Changed himself into a serpent	K
Gliding out through root and rubbish	X
With his right hand Hiawatha	A
Smote amain the hollow oak tree	K
Rent it into shreds and splinters	D
Left it lying there in fragments	D
But in vain for Pau Puk Keewis	D
Once again in human figure	O
Full in sight ran on before him	J
Sped away in gust and whirlwind	K
On the shores of Gitche Gumee	J
Westward by the Big Sea Water	O
Came unto the rocky headlands	D
To the Pictured Rocks of sandstone	Y
Looking over lake and landscape	Z
And the Old Man of the Mountain	C
He the Manito of Mountains	D
Opened wide his rocky doorways	D
Opened wide his deep abysses	D
Giving Pau Puk Keewis shelter	O
In his caverns dark and dreary	K
Bidding Pau Puk Keewis welcome	J
To his gloomy lodge of sandstone	Y
There without stood Hiawatha	A
Found the doorways closed against him	J
With his mittens Minjekahwun	Y
Smote great caverns in the sandstone	Y
Cried aloud in tones of thunder	O
Open I am Hiawatha	A
But the Old Man of the Mountain	Y
Opened not and made no answer	O
From the silent crags of sandstone	Y
From the gloomy rock abysses	D
Then he raised his hands to heaven	Y
Called imploring on the tempest	K
Called Waywassimo the lightning	R
And the thunder Annemeekee	R
And they came with night and darkness	D
Sweeping down the Big Sea Water	O
From the distant Thunder Mountains	D
And the trembling Pau Puk Keewis	D
Heard the footsteps of the thunder	O
Saw the red eyes of the lightning	R
Was afraid and crouched and trembled	K
Then Waywassimo the lightning	R
Smote the doorways of the caverns	D
With his war club smote the doorways	D
Smote the jutting crags of sandstone	Y
And the thunder Annemeekee	R
Shouted down into the caverns	D
Saying Where is Pau Puk Keewis	D
And the crags fell and beneath them	J
Dead among the rocky ruins	D
Lay the cunning Pau Puk Keewis	D
Lay the handsome Yenadizze	D
Slain in his own human figure	O
Ended were his wild adventures	D
Ended were his tricks and gambols	D
Ended all his craft and cunning	R
Ended all his mischief making	R
All his gambling and his dancing	R
All his wooing of the maidens	D
Then the noble Hiawatha	A
Took his soul his ghost his shadow	K
Spake and said O Pau Puk Keewis	D
Never more in human figure	O
Shall you search for new adventures	D
Never more with jest and laughter	O
Dance the dust and leaves in whirlwinds	D
But above there in the heavens	D
You shall soar and sail in circles	D
I will change you to an eagle	Q
To Keneu the great war eagle	Q
Chief of all the fowls with feathers	D
Chief of Hiawatha's chickens	D
And the name of Pau Puk Keewis	D
Lingers still among the people	Q
Lingers still among the singers	D
And among the story tellers	D
And in Winter when the snow flakes	D
Whirl in eddies round the lodges	D
When the wind in gusty tumult	K
O'er the smoke flue pipes and whistles	D
There they cry comes Pau Puk Keewis	D
He is dancing through the village	B
He is gathering in his harvest	K

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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