This is an analysis of the poem King Harald's Trance that begins with:
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Sword in length a reaping-hook amain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xbcb X dede X afaf X ghgh a Xaga a bgbg X fiXi X jXjX X jXjX X ckck a ilil X fgfg X fgfg X ljlj X gdgd X gXgX X emem XXbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101010110 101011101 101001 11101 1 111011101 101011101 11011 10111 1 101010111 101010111 11101 10101 1 111010111 101000101 11111 10111 1 1010101100 111110011 11011 10101 1 101110111 101111111 10101 10101 1 1010100101 101111101 111010 11101 1 100011101 1011101011 10101 10111 1 111010101 101110101 10111 10001 1 111111101 101010111 10101 10111 1 101111101 101010101 10101 11111 1 1110100111 100010101 10111 10101 1 101010101 101011111 11111 10111 1 101010101 111010101 10111 11101 1 100110101 101011101 11101 10001 1 011010111 101110111 10101 11110 1 101010101 101111111 10011 10101 1 101000101 101011101 11101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; him, his are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hand connects the lines.
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