This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xvi. -- Queen Thuri And The Angelica Stalks that begins with:
Northward over Drontheim,
Flew the clamorous sea-gulls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc deXc acdf bgXf ghdi ggii bXjk ddbk kagc dbkc XXda lkda dXXX mdaX jhgc jmkX dlXn bXXn gaeg lajg ibXj hXgX hcin banX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1010011 101110 00111 100010 101010 101010 11101 011010 101011 101010 10101 101111 101110 101010 01101 111010 100110 101110 10101 001110 0100010 001010 10101 101011 101010 1001010 11101 101110 001010 101110 11101 001110 1010010 101110 10101 111000 101010 101110 00101 101011 111010 001110 11101 111011 101010 101110 10101 1110110 101010 101010 01100 111011 11110 101110 10101 111110 101110 011110 10101 101010 111011 011111 1011 111010 1001011 101100 10101 100001 101010 111110 00101 101110 101010 100110 00101 101011 101011 101010 10101 001110 110110 101010 11111 101010 001010 101110 01100 111010 111010 1010011 10101 101010 101110 1010011 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sat is repeated.
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