Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, “The Song of Hiawatha” (1855) is an epic poem written in trochaic tetrameter, which gives the poem the rhythm of tribal drumbeats.

Our selection contains 53 lines, just 1 percent of the 5300 lines that comprise Longfellow’s epic masterpiece. We hope you enjoy these few moments with Hiawatha, Nokomis, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.