Returned To Say Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH CHCH IJKH L| When I face north a lost Cree | A |
| on some new shore puts a moccasin down | B |
| rock in the light and noon for seeing | C |
| he in a hurry and I beside him | D |
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| It will be a long trip he will be a new chief | E |
| we have drunk new water from an unnamed stream | F |
| under little dark trees he is to find a path | G |
| we both must travel because we have met | H |
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| Henceforth we gesture even by waiting | C |
| there is a grain of sand on his knifeblade | H |
| so small he blows it and while his breathing | C |
| darkens the steel his become set | H |
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| And start a new vision the rest of his life | I |
| We will mean what he does Back of this page | J |
| the path turns north We are looking for a sign | K |
| Our moccasins do not mark the ground | H |
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| Submitted by Bakari Thomas | L |
William Stafford
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