Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Viii. -- Gudrun by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Viii. -- Gudrun that begins with:

On King Olaf's bridal night
Shines the moon with tender light,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX aadd bbXe ffgg ffbb hhaX eeeX bbeXXddhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1010101 1010101 0101 10101110 11101110 0010001 110 1010101 1000101 1110001 0111 1011101 1010101 1010111 1101 1010100 1000101 1000101 001 1010111 0011101 1001111 0110 1011101 1110111 10010111 0110 10010111 1111111 01110101 101010 10111111 10100101 1010101 10100 10100101 1110101 10101001 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

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