Report To Crazy Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFD GHIJKLMNMDHOP IQRSBBT PBU VWWXYZA2B2INBC2FD2E2 F2 G2H2CI2J2K2 L2M2BL2N2| All the Sioux were defeated Our clan | A |
| got poor but a few got richer | B |
| They fought two wars I did not | C |
| take part No one remembers your vision | D |
| or even your real name Now | E |
| the children go to town and like | F |
| loud music I married a Christian | D |
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| Crazy Horse it is not fair | G |
| to hide a new vision from you | H |
| In our schools we are learning | I |
| to take aim when we talk and we have | J |
| found out our enemies They shift when | K |
| words do they even change and hide | L |
| in every person A teacher here says | M |
| hurt or scorned people are places | N |
| where real enemies hide He says | M |
| we should not hurt or scorn anyone | D |
| but help them And I will tell you | H |
| in a brave way the way Crazy Horse | O |
| talked that teacher is right | P |
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| I will tell you a strange thing | I |
| at the rodeo close to the grandstand | Q |
| I saw a farm lady scared by a blown | R |
| piece of paper and at that place | S |
| horses and policemen were no longer | B |
| frightening but suffering faces were | B |
| and the hunched over backs of the old | T |
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| Crazy Horse tell me if I am right | P |
| these are the things we thought we were | B |
| doing something about | U |
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| In your life you saw many strange things | V |
| and I will tell you another now I salute | W |
| the white man's flag But when I salute | W |
| I hold my hand alertly on the heartbeat | X |
| and remember all of us and how we depend | Y |
| on a steady pulse together There are those | Z |
| who salute because they fear other flags | A2 |
| or mean to use ours to chase them | B2 |
| I must not allow my part of saluting | I |
| to mean this All of our promises | N |
| our generous sayings to each other our | B |
| honorable intentions those I affirm | C2 |
| when I salute At these times it is like | F |
| shutting my eyes and joining a religious | D2 |
| colony at prayer in the gray dawn | E2 |
| in the deep aisles of a church | F2 |
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| Now I have told you about new times | G2 |
| Yes I know others will report | H2 |
| different things They have been caught | C |
| by weak ways I tell you straight | I2 |
| the way it is now and it is our way | J2 |
| the way we were trying to find | K2 |
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| The chokecherries along our valley | L2 |
| still bear a bright fruit There is good | M2 |
| pottery clay north of here I remember | B |
| our old places When I pass the Musselshell | L2 |
| I run my hand along those old grooves in the rock | N2 |
William Stafford
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