This is an analysis of the poem A Chippewa Legend that begins with:
The old Chief, feeling now wellnigh his end,
Called his two eldest children to his side,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdcdefgafdhijhkX aliafbffejXgdlfmb demfkafddnhnffaaoiahghpjkckmpfcdkfb bfXfcfXceXdXcXfgdhddmamkg deacmfXqamcfgikjajXhXmiiXkkXpoXqdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,17,35,25,34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011001 1011010001 1100110101 1111011111 0101010111 01001110101 1101010111 0101010111 1010111111 0101110101 1101111111 1111010111 0011111101 10011110111 1011010011 1100110100 0101110001 1101010110 1101010011 0101011101 1001010011 1101010100 1001010111 1111110111 00110011111 1111111101 1001110111 1101011111 1001110100 0101110111 1101010101 1001110101 0111010001 1101011101 0101110011 0101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1111011101 11101000101 1101010111 1111110101 1111000101 11010101101 1101010001 1101010101 1100100101 1001110101 11010010011 1101011111 0100010101 1111010101 1111010100 1101110100 1100100111 1111110101 1111010111 1111110001 0101010101 1011110100 0011000101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010001 1111011101 1001010111 0111111101 1111110101 1101000111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011000101 1011010101 1111111111 11001110101 1110010001 0101010111 1011001101 1111001101 0101010100 1111010111 1101011101 1111010011 01110111100 1011010101 1101111101 11110110111 1001010101 1111011101 1111111101 10010001001 1101111111 0111110101 1101011111 1101010101 10001110111 0101010001 0111010101 1011010101 1101011101 1101110001 11101101010 11001000111 0101010111 0111110001 0011010101 1111110111 0111011111 10110100101 10010011101 1101111111 0110010111 1101110101 11111111110 1011010111 0111111111 1011010110 10101010101 1111011101 1111111111 1111010101 1111010100 1111000111 1101000101 1011011100 1111011101 1101010011 1001110111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1147
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, and, it, our, for, me, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word charge at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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