This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xv. -- A Little Bird In The Air that begins with:
A little bird in the air
Is singing of Thyri the fair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbDE ccffffDE ccfggfDE bbcbbXDE hhciicDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001 01001001 0100101 101001001 00100101 101001101 111101 11010110 01100001 10100101 10100111 11001101 11101101 00110101 111101 11010110 11111111 1111111 1111111 111101001 11101101 10101001 111101 11010110 001011011 11001001 11101001 11001101 00101101 1110001 111101 11010110 1101001 001001011 01101101 0111001 1100001 11001001 111101 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; of, and, away, through, they, say are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word other 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 3. Interlude Vii.
- Analysis of The Celestial Pilot. (From Dante. Purgatorio, Ii.)
- Analysis of The Song Of Hiawatha Xvi: Pau-Puk-Keewis
