This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Ii. -- The King's Return that begins with:
And King Olaf heard the cry,
Saw the red light in the sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccX bbdXBX eefccf ffbggb hhaiiX jjeiiX kkgjjg ggdlld mmnccn nnlggl Xgebbe bbonno eeinni eedXBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1011001 1010101 11101010 10111010 1000101 1111111 1011111 1010111 11101010 101011110 1011101 0010101 1010111 1010101 10111010 100001110 1010001 0010101 0010101 1011111 00111010 10101010 0010101 11100101 0110111 1010111 01101010 00111010 1010100 1010101 00100101 1010111 10111110 11101010 1110101 1111001 1010101 1010111 111010100 1100100100 1010101 10101001 1000100 1010101 10101010 11111010 0010111 1110111 10010101 1011001 101110110 10111010 1000101 1110111 1001101 1110011 10111010 10101110 1000101 11101010 1010101 1100111 10101010 10101010 1010101 1011111 1010101 11111001 11111110 10101110 1011101 1110111 1110001 11100010 10101010 10111110 10101010 1110001 1010111 1110101 11101010 101011110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, on, one are repeated.
The author used the same words to, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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