This is an analysis of the poem The Vikings that begins with:
Far to the South a star,
Bright-shining over all;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cded Xfef fbeb gchc ihih jjij ikXk eXlX gada XbXb Ejfj EfXf ghih Xbeb idfd XeXe Xaea gdgd eXii Xfdf gaXX Xbib dkik gfdf limm eimX Xiii Xkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 110101 10101010 1010111 1101010 010111 11001110 010101 10100101 011111 111010010 1110101 0111010 0011101 1001110 110111 0101010 1011001 1010100101 10111001 1101110 1110101 101010011 1010101 111010011 110101 1011110 0010101 1111010 1010111 0111010 110001 11101110 1010111 011110 10101001 1101010 011111 11001111 110011 1111110 010101 1110100 010101 101001110 0011101 00101010 0101011 101001110 110101 0101110 1011111 111011010 1010101 010100100 010101 1100100 1010111 1101010 010001 11010010 111101 1001010 110101 00111110 011111 1101010 0010101 10111110 111111 11101010 100111 1001010 111111 01110100 010101 111010010 100100 101011010 1100101 10111100 011101 01011101 1100100 1111110 1101101 10101010 0111010 111110010 0010101 111111001 111001 1101010 1011111 101101110 110111 1011110 111101 1111110 110111 11010010 011101 010011010 01100101 1101010 1110101 11000011 1010011 11101010 1100101 1111011101 1010101 1100101 010111 111110101 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 116
- 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; and, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
The author used the same words and, on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Vikings;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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