Mon-daw-min ; Or, The Origin Of The Indian-corn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA AHAH GIGI AJAJ KEKE KBKB ALAL EHEH EMEM ENEN EKEK OPOP AQAQ GKGK OROR KKKK| Cherry bloom and green buds bursting | A |
| Fleck the azure skies | B |
| In the spring wood hungering thirsting | A |
| Faint an Indian lies | B |
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| To behold his guardian spirit | C |
| Fasts the dusky youth | D |
| Prays that thus he may inherit | C |
| Warrior strength and truth | D |
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| Weak he grows the war path gory | E |
| Seems a far delight | F |
| Now he scans the flowers whose glory | E |
| Is not won by fight | F |
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| Hunger kills me see my arrow | G |
| Bloodless lies I ask | A |
| If life's doom be grave pit narrow | G |
| Deathless make its task | A |
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| For man's welfare guide my being | A |
| So I shall not die | H |
| Like the flow'rets fading fleeing | A |
| When the snow is nigh | H |
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| Medicine from the plants we borrow | G |
| Salves from many a leaf | I |
| May they not kill hunger's sorrow | G |
| Give with food relief | I |
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| Suddenly a spirit shining | A |
| From the sky came down | J |
| Green his mantle floating twining | A |
| Gold his feather crown | J |
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| I have heard thy thought unspoken | K |
| Famous thou shall be | E |
| Though no scalp shall be the token | K |
| Men shall speak of thee | E |
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| Bravely borne men's heaviest burden | K |
| Ever lighter lies | B |
| Wrestling with me win the guerdon | K |
| Gain thy wish arise | B |
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| Now he rises and prevailing | A |
| Hears the angel say | L |
| Strong in weakness never failing | A |
| Strive yet one more day | L |
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| Now again I come and find thee | E |
| Yet with courage high | H |
| So that though my arms can bind thee | E |
| Victor thou not I | H |
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| Hark to morrow conquering slay me | E |
| Blest shall be thy toil | M |
| After wrestling strip me lay me | E |
| Sleeping in the soil | M |
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| Visit oft the place above me | E |
| Root out weeds and grass | N |
| Fast no more obeying love me | E |
| Watch what comes to pass | N |
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| Waiting through the long day dreary | E |
| Still he hungers on | K |
| Once more wrestling weak and weary | E |
| Still the fight is won | K |
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| Stripped of robes and golden feather | O |
| Buried lies the guest | P |
| Summer's wonder working weather | O |
| Warms his place of rest | P |
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| Ever his commands fulfilling | A |
| Mourns his victor friend | Q |
| Fearing with a heart unwilling | A |
| To have known the end | Q |
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| No upon the dark mould fallow | G |
| Shine bright blades of green | K |
| Rising spreading plumes of yellow | G |
| O'er their sheaves are seen | K |
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| Higher than a mortal's stature | O |
| Soars the corn in pride | R |
| Seeing it he knows that Nature | O |
| There stands deified | R |
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| 'Tis my friend he cries the guerdon | K |
| Fast and prayer have won | K |
| Want is past and hunger's burden | K |
| Soon shall torture none | K |
John Campbell
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