The Wooing Of Gheezis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFBGHIJKKKKKLML NONIOLLPLLKKLKLLLKLK QKRLLKLKIKST| The red chief Gheezis chief of the golden wampum lay | A |
| And watched the west wind blow adrift the clouds | B |
| With breath all flowery that from his calumet | C |
| Curl'd like to smoke about the mountain tops | D |
| Gheezis look'd from his wigwam blue as little pools | E |
| Drained from the restless mother wave that lay | A |
| Dreaming in golden hollows of her sands | F |
| And deck'd his yellow locks with feath'ry clouds | B |
| And took his pointed arrows and so stoop'd | G |
| And leaning with his red hands on the hills | H |
| Look'd with long glances all along the earth | I |
| Mudjekeewis West Wind in amongst the forest | J |
| I see a maid gold hued as maize full ripe her eyes | K |
| Laugh under the dusk boughs like watercourses | K |
| Her moccasins are wrought with threads of light her hands | K |
| Are full of blue eggs of the robin and of buds | K |
| Of lilies and green spears of rice O Mudjekeewis | K |
| Who is the maid gold hued as maize full ripen'd | L |
| O sun O Gheezis that is Spring is Segwun woo her | M |
| I cannot for she hides behind the behmagut | L |
| The thick leav'd grape vine and there laughs upon me | N |
| O Gheezis cried Segwun from behind the grape vine | O |
| Thy arms are long but all too short to reach me | N |
| Thou art in heaven and I upon the earth | I |
| Gheezis with long golden fingers tore the grape vine | O |
| But Segwun laughed upon him from behind | L |
| A maple shaking little leaves of gold fresh budded | L |
| Gheezis where are thy feet O sun O chief | P |
| Follow sigh'd Mudjekeewis Gheezis must wed | L |
| With Spring with Segwun or all nature die | L |
| The red chief Gheezis swift ran down the hills | K |
| And as he ran the pools and watercourses | K |
| Snatch'd at his yellow hair the thickets caught | L |
| Its tendrils on their brambles and the buds | K |
| That Segwun dropp'd opened as they touched | L |
| His moccasins were flame his wampum gold | L |
| His plumes were clouds white as the snow and red | L |
| As Sumach in the moon of falling leaves | K |
| He slipp'd beside the maple Segwun laugh'd | L |
| O Gheezis I am hid amid the lily pads | K |
| And thou hast no canoe to seek me there farewell | Q |
| I see thine eyes O Segwun laugh behind the buds | K |
| The Manitou is love and gives me love and love | R |
| Gives all of power His moccasins wide laid | L |
| Red tracks upon the waves When Segwun leap'd | L |
| Gold red and laughing from the lily pads | K |
| To flit before him like a fire fly she found | L |
| The golden arms of Gheezis round her cast the buds | K |
| Burst into flower in her hands and all the earth | I |
| Laughing where Gheezis look'd and Mudjekeewis | K |
| Heart friend of Gheezis laugh'd Now life is come | S |
| Since Segwun and red Gheezis wed and reign | T |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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