The Indian Burying Ground Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMN OPQP RSRS TPTP UVUW| In spite of all the learn'd have said | A |
| I still my old opinion keep | B |
| The posture that we give the dead | A |
| Points out the soul's eternal sleep | B |
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| Not so the ancients of these lands | C |
| The Indian when from life releas'd | D |
| Again is seated with his friends | E |
| And shares gain the joyous feast | D |
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| His imag'd birds and painted bowl | F |
| And ven'son for a journey dress'd | G |
| Bespeak the nature of the soul | F |
| Activity that knows no rest | G |
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| His bow for action ready bent | H |
| And arrows with a head of stone | I |
| Can only mean that life is spent | H |
| And not the finer essence gone | J |
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| Thou stranger that shalt come this way | K |
| No fraud upon the dead commit | L |
| Observe the swelling turf and say | K |
| They do not lie but here they sit | L |
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| Here still lofty rock remains | M |
| On which the curious eye may trace | N |
| Now wasted half by wearing rains | M |
| The fancies of a older race | N |
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| Here still an aged elm aspires | O |
| Beneath whose far projecting shade | P |
| And which the shepherd still admires | Q |
| The children of the forest play'd | P |
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| There oft a restless Indian queen | R |
| Pale Shebah with her braided hair | S |
| And many a barbarous form is seen | R |
| To chide the man that lingers there | S |
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| By midnight moons o'er moistening dews | T |
| In habit for the chase array'd | P |
| The hunter still the deer pursues | T |
| The hunter and the deer a shade | P |
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| And long shall timorous fancy see | U |
| The painted chief and pointed spear | V |
| And reason's self shall bow the knee | U |
| To shadows and delusions here | W |
Philip Freneau
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