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Song of Hiawatha

(4) Base Camp

Apart from some vocabulary, there's not a ton of stuff in The Song of Hiawatha that should trip you up, and that's one of the reasons it was so popular for so many years. Longfellow's poetry is easy to understand and easy to memorize because of its simple language and constant rhythm. Plus the poem is super-heavy on plot and not very likely to make you too bored.