Song Of The American Indian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LLMMNNOOPPQR| Stranger stay nor wish to climb | A |
| The heights of yonder hills sublime | A |
| For there strange shapes and spirits dwell | B |
| That oft the murmuring thunders swell | B |
| Of power from the impending steep | C |
| To hurl thee headlong to the deep | C |
| But secure with us abide | D |
| By the winding river's side | D |
| Our gladsome toil our pleasures share | E |
| And think not of a world of care | E |
| The lonely cayman where he feeds | F |
| Among the green high bending reeds | F |
| Shall yield thee pastime thy keen dart | G |
| Through his bright scales shall pierce his heart | G |
| Home returning from our toils | H |
| Thou shalt bear the tiger's spoils | H |
| And we will sing our loudest strain | I |
| O'er the forest tyrant slain | I |
| Sometimes thou shalt pause to hear | J |
| The beauteous cardinal sing clear | K |
| Where hoary oaks by time decayed | L |
| Nod in the deep wood's pathless glade | L |
| And the sun with bursting ray | M |
| Quivers on the branches gray | M |
| By the river's craggy banks | N |
| O'erhung with stately cypress ranks | N |
| Where the bush bee hums his song | O |
| Thy trim canoe shall glance along | O |
| To night at least in this retreat | P |
| Stranger rest thy wandering feet | P |
| To morrow with unerring bow | Q |
| To the deep thickets fearless we will go | R |
William Lisle Bowles
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