The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
Caramuru (epic poem) Correia's wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, as a seer, being able to foresee the Dutch invasions of Brazil. The poem is written in ottava rima (oitava rima in Portuguese). Lines consist of ten syllables and the strophe rhymes according to the pattern abababcc. Here is the first stanza of the poem. The hero "Filho do Trovão" is introduced in it. Caramuru (epic poem) Caramuru is an epic poem written by Brazilian Augustinian friar Santa Rita Durão. It was published in 1781, and it is one of the most famous Indianist works of Brazilian Neoclassicism – the other being Basílio da Gama's "O