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

Loudly the sailors cheered
Svend of the Forked Beard,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAaXaaXa bXbXaaac dddefffX gggXeeea aAahiiih jjjgkkkX cccillli eeemeeemXdddijjji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 10011 100111 10010 101101 100101 100101 10011 101101 101101 101101 010010 100101 100101 100101 11011 110101 100101 110101 01010 100101 1001001 110101 10010 101111 111101 111101 10110 010111 101101 1011001 10110 1100101 10011 101101 10110 1100111 100101 111001 100010 110101 100101 101101 01011 1001001 101101 100101 011110 101101 101101 100101 00110 001101 101111 101101 10110 110111 101101 100111 10011 100101 101101 101101 10011 101101 101101 100101 10110 100111 100101 101111 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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.

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