This is an analysis of the poem The Erl-King's Daughter that begins with:
SIR OLF rode fast towards Thurlston's walls,
To meet his bride in his father's halls. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb XX cX cX cX dX cX cX cX eX Xe bX XX ff bb dX cX bX bX dX bX cc dX bX bX ee bb ggXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 010100101 111111001 011101101 111010101 1011101101 10101101101 10001011010 101111111 0100011010 10101011101 111111010010 10111011101 01001111010 1011011111 11100011000 1011100111 01001111010 101001011101 11111101010 11001101001 11111111110 101111101001 011010111110 11010011011 1111100101 1101110111 101101001010 11011101 1011010111 1110111101 1111100111 0111101001 10111011011 10111111011 11001001010 1010111110 10111011010 1011111011 1011010110100 101011111011 101001101110 1011111111 1010110100100 10111111001 01101111010 110101011 0111001001 11111111 1010111100100 10110010001 00101101010 10111011001 1010111010 1110101101 111111111 110010111 0101110101 101110101 1011110101 010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; , i, to, rode, he, and, my, in, she, drooped are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, she are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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