Cree Fairies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDC EFFE GHHI JKKJ LMML AHHA ENNE| Did earth ever see | A |
| On thy prairie's line | B |
| Tribes older than thine | B |
| Old Chief of the Cree | A |
| - | |
| Before us we know | C |
| Of none who lived here | D |
| Our shafts bade them go | C |
| - | |
| But others have share | E |
| Of lake and of land | F |
| A swift footed band | F |
| No arrow can scare | E |
| - | |
| Their coming has been | G |
| When flowers are gay | H |
| On islet and bay | H |
| Their footprints are seen | I |
| - | |
| There dance little feet | J |
| Light grasses they break | K |
| Beneath the blue lake | K |
| Must be their retreat | J |
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| We listen and none | L |
| Hears ever a sound | M |
| But where lily crowned | M |
| Floats the isle in the sun | L |
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| Three children we see | A |
| Like sunbeams at play | H |
| And voiceless as they | H |
| Dogs bounding in glee | A |
| - | |
| Of old they were there | E |
| Ever young who are these | N |
| Whom Death cannot seize | N |
| What Spirits of air | E |
John Campbell
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