This is an analysis of the poem The Wooing Of Gheezis that begins with:

The red chief Gheezis, chief of the golden wampum, lay
And watched the west-wind blow adrift the clouds,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbabbcbdcbXbbXXXXXeaXefXXfXbXcbcffbcbXbXfcbfbdXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010010101 1101110101 011100100101 1101010101 101001011101 1001010111 1001010001 1101010101 1101010111 1100011101 1011010101 100011001010 110111111101 11001111000 110011010101 110110010101 1101110111000 10011111110 11110100101011 110111010100 111011111011 110110001011 11111111011 11010110101 100110101011 1101011001 0101010101110 1011111111 10110001011 10101011101 0111011101 11110111000 1101010101 0101110101 110110111 0100010101 0101110111 1100010101 1101010101 110111010101 1111010111100 111111010101 110001111111 101010010011 1101011101 1111000101 010111010111 010101010101 100100011101 10110111000 1101011101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2516
  • Average number of words per stanza: 463
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, ', his, love, gheezis are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of The Wooing Of Gheezis;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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