To The Driving Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACADA EACAFGAABAHIB JDKLCAAMNDI AAOLPAOADADQAAARIA| Gloomy and dark art thou O chief of the mighty Omahas | A |
| Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud whose name thou hast taken | B |
| Wrapt in thy scarlet blanket I see thee stalk through the city's | A |
| Narrow and populous streets as once by the margin of rivers | A |
| Stalked those birds unknown that have left us only their | C |
| footprints | A |
| What in a few short years will remain of thy race but the | D |
| footprints | A |
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| How canst thou walk these streets who hast trod the green turf | E |
| of the prairies | A |
| How canst thou breathe this air who hast breathed the sweet air | C |
| of the mountains | A |
| Ah 't is in vain that with lordly looks of disdain thou dost | F |
| challenge | G |
| Looks of disdain in return and question these walls and these | A |
| pavements | A |
| Claiming the soil for thy hunting grounds while down trodden | B |
| millions | A |
| Starve in the garrets of Europe and cry from its caverns that | H |
| they too | I |
| Have been created heirs of the earth and claim its division | B |
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| Back then back to thy woods in the regions west of the Wabash | J |
| There as a monarch thou reignest In autumn the leaves of the | D |
| maple | K |
| Pave the floors of thy palace halls with gold and in summer | L |
| Pine trees waft through its chambers the odorous breath of their | C |
| branches | A |
| There thou art strong and great a hero a tamer of horses | A |
| There thou chasest the stately stag on the banks of the Elkhorn | M |
| Or by the roar of the Running Water or where the Omaha | N |
| Calls thee and leaps through the wild ravine like a brave of the | D |
| Blackfeet | I |
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| Hark what murmurs arise from the heart of those mountainous | A |
| deserts | A |
| Is it the cry of the Foxes and Crows or the mighty Behemoth | O |
| Who unharmed on his tusks once caught the bolts of the thunder | L |
| And now lurks in his lair to destroy the race of the red man | P |
| Far more fatal to thee and thy race than the Crows and the Foxes | A |
| Far more fatal to thee and thy race than the tread of Behemoth | O |
| Lo the big thunder canoe that steadily breasts the Missouri's | A |
| Merciless current and yonder afar on the prairies the | D |
| camp fires | A |
| Gleam through the night and the cloud of dust in the gray of the | D |
| daybreak | Q |
| Marks not the buffalo's track nor the Mandan's dexterous | A |
| horse race | A |
| It is a caravan whitening the desert where dwell the Camanches | A |
| Ha how the breath of these Saxons and Celts like the blast of | R |
| the east wind | I |
| Drifts evermore to the west the scanty smokes of thy wigwams | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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