This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Ix. -- Thangbrand The Priest that begins with:
Short of stature, large of limb,
Burly face and russet beard,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbX cXcaddc bebeffc cfcfggc hchcaXc cicifXc XbbbiXc hihXbbc cecejjX biXibXc kikXbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 111 0101 1110101 1011111 1111100 0010111 1110011 011 0101 1010101 1110011 1010001 10000101 10010101 101 1111 10010101 0010101 1011101 1010111 0100101 101 1101 1010101 10101011 1010111 1101111 1011101 101 01010 1010101 0011111 1011101 0000101 11100111 11001 0101 1010101 1010100 1001101 1000101 10000101 101 1110 1110101 1110101 0010111 1110111 1010011 1001 1101 1110101 1011011 1111101 10100101 1011101 0111 1001 1010101 1010110 1110111 1111100 1100111 11111 0101 1010101 1010111 1011111 1110101 0101101 101 0101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 77
- 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; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, boisterous are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word priest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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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 V. -- The Skerry Of Shrieks
- Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Viii. -- Gudrun
- Analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf X. -- Raud The Strong
