This is an analysis of the poem The Longbeard's Saga: A.D. 400 that begins with:
Over the camp-fires
Drank I with heroes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdXeeXfgahijXkiXkXXjXXaallXfXjfjfaXlfhkkgmianangagkXXfmiiXXoomXijflampXhqkqjgXfXimogXaafabbpeiXemdaXmfXeoiqbaaaXggikocX iXXaejemfXrlekkX qmmePlPjaXakrX jmXafXlmalpX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 122,16,14,12,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 11010 100101 10011 100111 10010 10110 1011 10011 10011 10011 10011 10011 1111 101101 10011 10010 11010 100100 10010 10010 10010 100101 10110 100100 11011 11110 11011 111111 1111110 110101 10111 100111 100101 101101 110101 101001 10110 11111 110101 101001 1111 100101 10011 100101 10010 10011 110010 10011 110010 10011 1000110 10010 10011 010010 100010 1101111 111101 101110 11010 110100 10010 101101 10011 1100101 11110 11110 111110 111101 10011 0110101 10110 110110 111010 101001 10110 1100101 10110 010110 010011 0110100 11010 11101 111010 1100101 10011 111101 10100 010011 111010 111111 11011 11011 110011 000010 110110 110010 111111 101001 11111 100111 11011 010110 011011 110101 10110 10011 111101 10110 010010 111101 1011 10110 110111 10110 110111 1011 1110010 111110 110111 110111 111111 11110 0101101 100101 1111 100111 10010 100101 10111 111101 10110 10011 11101 110101 11011 11110 110011 10110 1111100 110110 11110 100100 111101 100100 10001 101111 10010 11110 111011 110011 11101 100111 111101 10100 1001 101101 111000 101110 10110 110110 11010 100100 1101 1001 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 796
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 167
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, smiles, on, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words scaring, mother, clutching, loud, came, its, smiles are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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