This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part. 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Vi. -- The Wraith Of Odin that begins with:
The guests were loud, the ale was strong,
King Olaf feasted late and long;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaX bbccX XXXdX ccccX XecXX ddbbX ffbbX cceeX ffXXX cccXX XXggX cchhX ccXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11010111 01010101 100010101 111100100 01110111 01011110 110111001 01110111 111100100 01011101 111001010 010101110 01011111 111100100 11011101 11110101 11010101 10011101 111100100 110101110 01010111 110010101 101111111 111100100 01010101 10110001 01010101 110100111 111100100 11100101 11010111 01110111 11011101 111100100 10010101 01000101 010100101 01010101 111100100 11110111 11010101 11110111 11010011 111100100 10100101 11011101 11011101 10110111 111100100 010111011 111110111 11011111 01110101 111100100 11010101 11011001 11111001 11110101 111100100 11010111 111100101 10010011 01110101 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fogelsang at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part. 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Vi. -- The Wraith Of Odin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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