This is an analysis of the poem Olaf Trygvason that begins with:
Broad the sails o'er the North Sea go;
High on deck in the morning glow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX bbcDX eecDX fffDX bbeDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100111 11100101 101001 11010111 101010100 11100111 111101111 11001110 1001110 101010100 10100101 10101111 1001110 1001110 101010100 10101101 11110101 1101010 1001110 10010100 101111001 11110101 1001011 1001110 10010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Olaf Trygvason;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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