The Thunderbolt. - Indian Legends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFBF GGHGIJKJ JLMLNEOE PQRQSJTJ BUVUNHWX GYZYA2B2GB2 GHC2HD2E2F2E2 GG2OG2DB2H2B2| There is an artless tradition among the Indians related by Irving of a warrior who saw the thunderbolt lying upon the ground with a beautifully wrought moccasin on each side of it Thinking he had found a prize he put on the moccasins but they bore him away to the land of spirits whence he never returned | A |
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| Loud pealed the thunder | B |
| From arsenal high | C |
| Bright flashed the lightning | D |
| Athwart the broad sky | C |
| Fast o'er the prairie | E |
| Through torrent and shade | F |
| Sought the red hunter | B |
| His hut in the glade | F |
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| Deep roared the cannon | G |
| Whose forge is the sun | G |
| And red was the chain | H |
| The thunderbolt spun | G |
| O'er the thick wild wood | I |
| There quivered a line | J |
| Low 'mid the green leaves | K |
| Lay hunter and pine | J |
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| Clear was the sunshine | J |
| The hurricane past | L |
| And fair flowers smiled in | M |
| The path of the blast | L |
| While in the forest | N |
| Lay rent the huge tree | E |
| Up rose the red man | O |
| All unharmed and free | E |
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| Bright glittered each leaf | P |
| With sunlight and spray | Q |
| And close at his feet | R |
| The thunder bolt lay | Q |
| And moccasins wrought | S |
| With the beads that shine | J |
| Where the rainbow hangeth | T |
| A wampum divine | J |
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| Wondered the hunter | B |
| What spirit was there | U |
| Then donned the strange gift | V |
| With shout and with prayer | U |
| But the stout forest | N |
| That echoed the strain | H |
| Heard never the voice of | W |
| That red man again | X |
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| Up o'er the mountain | G |
| As torrents roll down | Y |
| Marched he o'er dark oak | Z |
| And pine's soaring crown | Y |
| Far in the bright west | A2 |
| The sunset grew clear | B2 |
| Crimson and golden | G |
| The hunting grounds near | B2 |
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| Light trod the chieftain | G |
| The tapestried plain | H |
| There stood his good horse | C2 |
| He'd left with the slain | H |
| Gone were the sandals | D2 |
| And broken the spell | E2 |
| A drop of clear dew | F2 |
| From either foot fell | E2 |
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| Long the dark maiden | G |
| Sought tearful and wide | G2 |
| Never the red man | O |
| Came back for his bride | G2 |
| With the forked lightning | D |
| Now hunts he the deer | B2 |
| Where the Great Spirit | H2 |
| Smiles ever and near | B2 |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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