The Outgoing Race Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGE FEHI JKLM| The mothers wish for no more daughters | A |
| There is no future before them | B |
| They bow their heads and their pride | C |
| At the end of the many tribes' journey | D |
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| The mothers weep over their children | E |
| Loved and unwelcome together | F |
| Who should have been dreamed not born | G |
| Since there is no road for the Indian | E |
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| The mothers see into the future | F |
| Beyond the end of that Chieftain | E |
| Who shall be the last of the race | H |
| Which allowed only death to a coward | I |
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| The square cold cheeks lips firm set | J |
| The hot straight glance and the throat line | K |
| Held like a stag's on the cliff | L |
| Shall be swept by the night winds and vanish | M |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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