This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Interlude Iv. that begins with:
And then the blue-eyed Norseman told
A Saga of the days of old.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXcbXaaXX aaaddaeddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 01000101 11111101 01000111 00110100 10110111 0100101011 01000101 110010111 10000101 11111101 01011110 10110101 01000111 110100101 10011101 110101011 11010011 100101001 01110101 01000101 11011101 01010101 110011101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xv. -- A Little Bird In The Air
- Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude Vii.
- Analysis of The Celestial Pilot. (From Dante. Purgatorio, Ii.)
