The White Maiden And The Indian Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF EEGGAA HHIIJK LMGGNN KKOOGG PPQQLL RSTTUU AAVVCC WWPPXY| Child of the Woods bred in leafy dell | A |
| See the palace home in which I dwell | A |
| With its lofty walls and casements wide | B |
| And objects of beauty on every side | B |
| Now tell me dost thou not think it bliss | C |
| To dwell in a home as bright as this | C |
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| Has my pale faced sister never seen | D |
| My home in the pleasant forest green | D |
| With the sunshine weaving its threads of gold | E |
| Through the boughs of elm and of maples old | E |
| And soft green moss and wild flowers sweet | F |
| What carpet more fitting for maidens feet | F |
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| Well see these diamonds of price untold | E |
| These costly trinkets of burnished gold | E |
| With rich soft robes my daily wear | G |
| These graceful flower wreaths for my hair | G |
| And now at least thou must frankly tell | A |
| Thou would st like such garb and jewels well | A |
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| The White Lily surely speaks in jest | H |
| For has she not seen me gaily dressed | H |
| Bright beads and rich wampum belts are mine | I |
| Which by far these paltry stones outshine | I |
| Whilst heron plumes fresh flowers and leaves | J |
| Are fairer than scentless buds like these | K |
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| But Forest Maiden to this my home | L |
| What sights what sounds of beauty come | M |
| Pictures of loveliness paintings rare | G |
| All the charms that art can bestow are there | G |
| With ravishing music of harp and song | N |
| Sweet notes that to gifted souls belong | N |
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| The wild birds sing in our shady trees | K |
| Mingling their notes with the vesper breeze | K |
| The flow of waters the wind s low moan | O |
| Have a music sweet that is all their own | O |
| Whilst surely no tints or colors rare | G |
| Can with those of the sky and the wood compare | G |
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| But what of the winter s cheerless gloom | P |
| When nature sleeps in a snowy tomb | P |
| The storm clouds brooding over head | Q |
| Thy song birds gone thy wild flowers dead | Q |
| With silence and gloom where er you roam | L |
| What then what then of your forest home | L |
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| We sing gay songs round our winter fires | R |
| Or list the tales of our gray haired sires | S |
| When the hunting path has claimed our braves | T |
| We pray to the God of winds and waves | T |
| Or on snow shoes swift we love to go | U |
| Over the fields of untrodden snow | U |
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| Then I cannot tempt thee here to dwell | A |
| Oh wayward child of the forest dell | A |
| To leave thy wandering restless life | V |
| With countless dangers and hardships rife | V |
| For a home of splendor such as this | C |
| Where thy days would be a dream of bliss | C |
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| No sister it cannot my heart engage | W |
| I would worry to death of this gilded cage | W |
| And the high close walls of each darkened room | P |
| Heavy with stifling close perfume | P |
| Back to the free fresh woods let me hie | X |
| Amid them to live amid them to die | Y |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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