The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDAA EEFFDGHGFF IJKKGLGLAA GGMMNONOPP QQOORSRSAA TTEUVWVXFF JJTTFOFOAA| Before I see another day | A |
| Oh let my body die away | A |
| In sleep I heard the northern gleams | B |
| The stars they were among my dreams | B |
| In rustling conflict through the skies | C |
| I heard I saw the flashes drive | D |
| And yet they are upon my eyes | C |
| And yet I am alive | D |
| Before I see another day | A |
| Oh let my body die away | A |
| - | |
| My fire is dead it knew no pain | E |
| Yet is it dead and I remain | E |
| All stiff with ice the ashes lie | F |
| And they are dead and I will die | F |
| When I was well I wished to live | D |
| For clothes for warmth for food and fire | G |
| But they to me no joy can give | H |
| No pleasure now and no desire | G |
| Then here contented will I lie | F |
| Alone I cannot fear to die | F |
| - | |
| Alas ye might have dragged me on | I |
| Another day a single one | J |
| Too soon I yielded to despair | K |
| Why did ye listen to my prayer | K |
| When ye were gone my limb were stronger | G |
| And oh how grievously I rue | L |
| That afterward a little longer | G |
| My friends I did not follow you | L |
| For strong and without pain I lay | A |
| Dear friends when ye were gone away | A |
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| My Child they gave thee to another | G |
| A woman who was not thy mother | G |
| When from my arms my Babe they took | M |
| On me how strangely did he look | M |
| Through his whole body something ran | N |
| A most strange working did I see | O |
| As if he strove to be a man | N |
| That he might pull the sledge for me | O |
| And then he stretched his arm how wild | P |
| Oh mercy like a helpless child | P |
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| My little joy my little pride | Q |
| In two day more I must have died | Q |
| Then do not weep and grieve for me | O |
| I feel I must have died with thee | O |
| O wind that o'er my head art flying | R |
| The way my friends their course did bend | S |
| I should not feel the pain of dying | R |
| Could I with thee a message end | S |
| Too soon my friend ye went away | A |
| For I had many thing to say | A |
| - | |
| I'll follow you across the snow | T |
| Ye travel heavily and slow | T |
| In spite of all my weary pain | E |
| I'll look upon your tent again | U |
| My fire is dead and snowy white | V |
| The water which beside it stood | W |
| The wolf has come to me to night | V |
| And he has stolen away my food | X |
| Forever left alone am I | F |
| Then wherefore should I fear to die | F |
| - | |
| Young as I am my course is run | J |
| I shall not see another sun | J |
| I cannot lift my limb to know | T |
| If they have any life or no | T |
| My poor forsaken child if I | F |
| For once could have thee close to me | O |
| With happy heart I then would die | F |
| And my last thought would happy be | O |
| But thou dear Babe art far away | A |
| Nor shall I see another day | A |
William Wordsworth
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