The Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston was scarcely recognized for her translations that inspired this poem in Algic Researches. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about the lover of Minnehaha that begins “by the shores of Gitche Gumee.”
ANSWER: The Song of Hiawatha
[10m] Hiawatha’s disappearance into the sunset on a canoe after inviting Christ to his land was likely inspired by this epic poem. This epic poem was collected by Elias Lönnrot.
ANSWER: Kalevala
[10h] Longfellow also used this meter of the Kalevala for The Song of Hiawatha. This meter consists of “long-short” syllables over four feet.
ANSWER: trochaic tetrameter [prompt on tetrameter]
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