The Camp Of Souls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDC EFE G HIHIDD JKJKD LMNMB OPOPQQ RSRRRR TFTFRR SFSFU JRJRVV RSRRFF WBW DMy white canoe like the silvery air | A |
O'er the River of Death that darkly rolls | B |
When the moons of the world are round and fair | A |
I paddle back from the 'Camp of Souls ' | C |
When the wishton wish in the low swamp grieves | D |
Come the dark plumes of red 'Singing Leaves ' | C |
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Two hundred times have the moons of spring | E |
Rolled over the bright bay's azure breath | F |
Since they decked me with plumes of an eagle's wing | E |
And painted my face with the 'paint of death ' | - |
And from their pipes o'er my corpse there broke | G |
The solemn rings of the blue 'last smoke ' | - |
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Two hundred times have the wintry moons | H |
Wrapped the dead earth in a blanket white | I |
Two hundred times have the wild sky loons | H |
Shrieked in the flush of the golden light | I |
Of the first sweet dawn when the summer weaves | D |
Her dusky wigwam of perfect leaves | D |
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Two hundred moons of the falling leaf | J |
Since they laid my bow in my dead right hand | K |
And chanted above me the 'song of grief' | J |
As I took my way to the spirit land | K |
Yet when the swallow the blue air cleaves | D |
Come the dark plumes of red 'Singing Leaves ' | - |
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White are the wigwams in that far camp | L |
And the star eyed deer on the plains are found | M |
No bitter marshes or tangled swamp | N |
In the Manitou's happy hunting ground | M |
And the moon of summer forever rolls | B |
Above the red men in their 'Camp of Souls ' | - |
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Blue are its lakes as the wild dove's breast | O |
And their murmurs soft as her gentle note | P |
As the calm large stars in the deep sky rest | O |
The yellow lilies upon them float | P |
And canoes like flakes of the silvery snow | Q |
Thro' the tall rustling rice beds come and go | Q |
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Green are its forests no warrior wind | R |
Rushes on war trail the dusk grove through | S |
With leaf scalps of tall trees mourning behind | R |
But South Wind heart friend of Great Manitou | R |
When ferns and leaves with cool dews are wet | R |
Bows flowery breaths from his red calumet | R |
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Never upon them the white frosts lie | T |
Nor glow their green boughs with the 'paint of death' | F |
Manitou smiles in the crystal sky | T |
Close breathing above them His life strong breath | F |
And He speaks no more in fierce thunder sound | R |
So near is His happy hunting ground | R |
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Yet often I love in my white canoe | S |
To come to the forests and camps of earth | F |
'Twas there death's black arrow pierced me through | S |
'Twas there my red browed mother gave me birth | F |
There I in the light of a young man's dawn | U |
Won the lily heart of dusk 'Springing Fawn ' | - |
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And love is a cord woven out of life | J |
And dyed in the red of the living heart | R |
And time is the hunter's rusty knife | J |
That cannot cut the red strands apart | R |
And I sail from the spirit shore to scan | V |
Where the weaving of that strong cord began | V |
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But I may not come with a giftless hand | R |
So richly I pile in my white canoe | S |
Flowers that bloom in the spirit land | R |
Immortal smiles of Great Manitou | R |
When I paddle back to the shores of earth | F |
I scatter them over the white man's hearth | F |
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For love is the breath of the soul set free | W |
So I cross the river that darkly rolls | B |
That my spirit may whisper soft to thee | W |
Of thine who wait in the 'Camp of Souls ' | - |
When the bright day laughs or the wan night grieves | D |
Come the dusky plumes of red 'Singing Leaves ' | - |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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