The Departing Of Gluskâp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKHLHMNOPQ RST UVWSXYZXA2B2XSC2D2E2 KF2G2H2D| It is so long ago and men well nigh | A |
| Forget what gladness was and how the earth | B |
| Gave corn in plenty and the rivers fish | C |
| And the woods meat before he went away | D |
| His going was on this wise | E |
| All the works | F |
| And words and ways of men and beasts became | G |
| Evil and all their thoughts continually | H |
| Were but of evil Then he made a feast | I |
| Upon the shore that is beside the sea | H |
| That takes the setting sun he ordered it | J |
| And called the beasts thereto Only the men | K |
| He called not seeing them evil utterly | H |
| He fed the panther's crafty brood and filled | L |
| The lean wolf's hunger from the hollow tree | H |
| His honey stayed the bear's terrific jaws | M |
| And the brown rabbit couched at peace within | N |
| The circling shadow of the eagle's wings | O |
| And when the feast was done he told them all | P |
| That now because their ways were evil grown | Q |
| On that same day he must depart from them | R |
| And they should look upon his face no more | S |
| Then all the beasts were very sorrowful | T |
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| It was near sunset and the wind was still | U |
| And down the yellow shore a thin wave washed | V |
| Slowly and Glusk p launched his birch canoe | W |
| And spread his yellow sail and moved from shore | S |
| Though no wind followed streaming in the sail | X |
| Or roughening the clear waters after him | Y |
| And all the beasts stood by the shore and watched | Z |
| Then to the west appeared a long red trail | X |
| Over the wave and Glusk p sailed and sang | A2 |
| Till the canoe grew little like a bird | B2 |
| And black and vanished in the shining trail | X |
| And when the beasts could see his form no more | S |
| They still could hear him singing as he sailed | C2 |
| And still they listened hanging down their heads | D2 |
| In long row where the thin wave washed and fled | E2 |
| But when the sound of singing died and when | K |
| They lifted up their voices in their grief | F2 |
| Lo on the mouth of every beast a strange | G2 |
| New tongue Then rose they all and fled apart | H2 |
| Nor met again in council from that day | D |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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