This is an analysis of the poem Hakon's Lay that begins with:
Then Thorstein looked at Hakon, where he sate,
Mute as a cloud amid the stormy hall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecX fXXedegXfbdcc aaddaaheiXaXfhXhbgfdifi cffefXbX fcaieaXdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,23,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 1101010101 1111111101 1111011111 1101010101 0101011111 11110010101 1011011111 110011101 01110001001 1001011101 0111010100 1101010101 1101000111 1101011111 1101010111 10010111110 1011010111 1101000101 11001011111 1101010111 1101110111 1001010111 0101110101 1101011101 1001111111 1100010011 1101110111 0100010110 01001011111 1100110101 1101111101 1111010101 1001010111 1101110100 0101001101 1011110100 01011000101 1111110101 1101011101 1111110100 1111010101 00110100100 1101110111 0001011101 1101111101 1101111101 1011010110 1011110100 11110010111 0111011111 1111000101 0101010101 1101010101 10100101010 1101011111 1101010111 11010111001 011101010001 1011011101 0110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 author used the same words then, 'the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Hakon's Lay;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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