This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Little Baltung: A.D. 395 that begins with:
A harper came over the Danube so wide,
And he came into Alaric's hall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXca dXeF aghX XfhX hfif XgjX eiXi XfaX Xgeg XjeX eXXf jiiX Xchc hfXf hbab Xiji gXXX iiXi XahX hXXf XhXh XaeX XfhX fXXX fXfX XihX hfcf hkXX didi Xafa XXeb Xaaa Xfbf Xihi hFXX hkaf iaha hiXi jiXi iaXa ciai X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001011 111001001 11101001010 0110101 1011110111 110100 0010100111 1010101 10010111 11011 1100100110 0100101 1111001011 1100101 1101101101 11011010 11110101 00101111 11111101 111111 111110111 110101 11111101 1010111 1111111100 1100111 010011111 0010011010 11110110 011101 11001011001 0101101 1111011000 111101 010010101 111111 110110100 011111 1010100110 001001101 110110100 010101 1010100110 110111 110111010 111110 1111001000 110101 111010101 0110011 10111100110 110111 1110100100 1010101 1010111001 0110111 1110101101 1010101 10110110110 11001001 1110101101 11110101 1110100101 1010111 11111001001 1110101 11101001001 10111001 1110100101 10111010 111101101000 1100111 111101101 1101101 110011110 1111100 11101001011 1101101 111011100 1111111 11101010101 11010 1110111111 1101111 1111100100 1111101 1111100100 1010111 100110 111111 111101110 1011101 111111010 110111 1100111010 1111111 111111011 110111 1110101100 1100111 101111011 010111 101110111 0101101 1101111011 1101101 11111111 111111 1010111101 0110101 101011100 0101101 1011111101 110100 1011101110 111111 11110001010 010111 11110001010 010011 0100110111 1110101 110110101 1100101 11111111000 1111110 11111011010 1111111 111111111 1110101 1110111101 1011111 111010100 011101 1011100111 11101101 111010100 010101 110101111 1011111 1111101111 0100101 11111011010 111101 010110101 11101100 111101011001 11101101 110110101 1110111 101010001111 1110101 10101111111 1011101 0111111010 1101101 1010111101 110101 11111001010 0010101 101010001010 0110101 10111001010 1111101 11101001001 11110101 101011101011 11100101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 170
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, he, his, i, of, thee, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, i are repeated.
The author used the same words and, 'i, he, 'oh, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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