This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefeXdgXXbafehbdecidbjhbbdkdkeXXlhhXmfimlbjlhdXhfddhehfgflhdnXmXXXhehXbXdemiXeXXlmfiXmdoXXfmbiemXbehddXmhnodXimiffmcippqfqfeXXemfefdeehhXdXemefdfXXeXXdhXhhXdhXddrXrfeXXdjhomhXhifbmdcjhhbmjmXfhmhmjeedmmXimmmXhmXjdidideXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 223,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11100010 10111010 10101110 001110010 10111011 11111110 1110101 11111110 10101011 10111110 10101010 10101010 00111011 10101110 100111010 10101010 11001010 10101010 10101110 00111110 10101010 00101110 11101010 00101010 10001110 1011111 0010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1111101 1010111 0110100 1 101111101 10011110 101001010 00100010 10110010 10101010 101110100 10111010 10101011 10111010 10101010 10101111 10101110 00101010 101010100 11011110 01100010 11100011 10101010 101000010 100101110 001010010 11101010 11111110 10101110 10101110 10111110 001001010 11011110 10101100 10101110 10101011 101110011 10101000 01011010 10111010 10011010 10101000 10011010 11101110 10001011 101011010 11101010 10101110 1001011100 10101010 10101010 00111010 10101010 01101010 00100011 10111010 10101010 10111010 10101110 11101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 101010100 11101110 11101010 00101110 100101010 10101110 10011010 10111110 100111010 00111010 00111010 01101110 10101010 10101010 00101010 10101010 10101110 10101100 00101110 10111110 10111110 10111010 10101010 111011100 10111010 10101010 1010111 1011101 1010111 1010101 1011111 1010111 1010101 1110100 1 11100010 01111010 11101010 11101110 00101110 11100110 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101010 01101100 11101010 10101010 01101010 10100110 101110010 00111010 10101010 100101110 1010101 00101010 10101110 0010101 10111010 111001010 10101010 10101100 00111010 01111010 00111110 10111010 10101110 101011000 1011101 1010111 1011101 10110111 1010101 1001110 1111001 1110100 1 01101010 10101010 10101010 10100110 001010100 10101110 01101010 111001010 10111010 00101010 10101010 111110010 001110010 11101110 11101110 10111010 10101010 10101010 00111110 00101111 011010100 10101100 00010010 01111010 111000100 01110110 11001010 111010011 11111010 10100110 10101110 100011100 111011010 11111110 10111110 10011110 111010100 111110100 10101010 11101110 01101010 10110000 0010001 0011111 10101010 1010111 11101010 10101001 1111100 1110100 1110101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1276
  • Amount of lines: 223
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, her are repeated.

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

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