This is an analysis of the poem King Volsung And The Skald that begins with:

HE sang on the Heath of the Volsungs,
Mid Volsung common men,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXab cXc de feghg h dfXf ijbj X XdcXk bk ilm lcmfm Xngnf jdX gb nbndn Xd obdb gndn n papXc fc Xhg hhnnN X fdddn anXnc Xc Xfb ffono goio X dgdno gobbb bhnnN gcgcg bXX cn gnakg k gbnb bdgd g dgdXh eh XfX fddXd fnnN X kdkgd adgdX d
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,5,2,3,5,5,3,2,5,2,4,4,1,5,2,3,5,1,5,5,2,3,5,4,1,5,5,5,5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,5,2,3,5,4,1,5,5,5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010 110101 1010010 1010001 0100010 11101 1000100 110001 1101110 110001 1101011 100101 1111010 010101 1111010 110111 0111110 110101 01001010 111111 110010010 11001001 101001110 010111 10111110 0100110 10101010 110001 101110 111101 0101110 011101 1101110 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 110101 1110011 011101 1101110 111101 1111010 110001 1111110 110111 1101011 111010 0101010 111101 1001010 10101 0101010 110111 0101110 1 110111 1101011 110111 0111110 011111 1101110 011101 101110 010101 1101010 100101 0111111 10101 1101010 110111 01001010 010101 1101010 010001 11110010 0110001 1111111 011111 1001010 110111 1 0101010 111101 11110010 111111 0111110 101111 1101110 111110 10111100 111101 1101000 110111 1101010 010101 1111010 100101 1111010 011111 1101010 110101 1111010 111101 11101010 011101 1101010 110101 01010010 110101 0101010 010101 1101010 110101 0111010 011111 1101110 110111 1111111 011111 1101010 110111 1111010 011011 1101010 010101 1111010 110101 11101010 100111 111111 10111 101110 10101 1001010 100101 10100010 10111 1101010 111001 101110 11111 111110 11111 10101010 101001 1111110 010101 1100010 110101 101001010 1010101 1111110 1011001 11110010 110101 0101100 10101 0101110 011111 10101010 0010001 1110110 111001 1111110 110111 1101010 010101 1101010 011111 0101110 011101 0101110 0100111 101110 10111 01010101 111111 1101111 100111 11110101 101101 1101010 110101 11111011 101111 1101010 110101 11100111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, love, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, cloth, and, its, the are repeated.

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