Pocahontas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EBEBFGGF HIHIBJJ DKDKLDDL| Wearied arm and broken sword | A |
| Wage in vain the desperate fight | B |
| Round him press a countless horde | A |
| He is but a single knight | B |
| Hark a cry of triumph shrill | C |
| Through the wilderness resounds | D |
| As with twenty bleeding wounds | D |
| Sinks the warrior fighting still | C |
| - | |
| Now they heap the fatal pyre | E |
| And the torch of death they light | B |
| Ah 'tis hard to die of fire | E |
| Who will shield the captive knight | B |
| Round the stake with fiendish cry | F |
| Wheel and dance the savage crowd | G |
| Cold the victim's mien and proud | G |
| And his breast is bared to die | F |
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| Who will shield the fearless heart | H |
| Who avert the murderous blade | I |
| From the throng with sudden start | H |
| See there springs an Indian maid | I |
| Quick she stands before the knight | B |
| 'Loose the chain unbind the ring | J |
| I am daughter of the king | J |
| And I claim the Indian right ' | - |
| - | |
| Dauntlessly aside she flings | D |
| Lifted axe and thirsty knife | K |
| Fondly to his heart she clings | D |
| And her bosom guards his life | K |
| In the woods of Powhattan | L |
| Still 'tis told by Indian fires | D |
| How a daughter of their sires | D |
| Saved the captive Englishman | L |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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