This is an analysis of the poem Heimdall that begins with:
When you, in journeying, shall reach earth's end,
And climb aloft among the shaggy hills,—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbXXad dbbeXadddXXfaaXgfbd babdbahdfgbiji kjbdlaflfdbdjlmalfcb ndnkmXXBdjeegbbfbjgB ffllgbn blbhadldbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,14,20,20,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001111 1101010101 11010101101 1101011001 1101111101 1101110101 0100101001011 1101010001 0110110011 1111110111 0111011011 1111000111 0110010101 11010101110 0101010101 1111110101 11011011110 1101010011 11110111001 1101111100 01010111111 0101111101 1011001101 0111111100 10110101001 11111111110 0101111110 1101110101 111110110010 1001011101 1100011111 1101111101 10011010011 1001111111 0111010101 1101010101 10010010001 1101011001 1101100111 11010110110 0100101010010 10110101010 1111110100 0111011011 11111100111 1111110001 1101010101 11110011011 11010101111 11110111100 1101110111 010100111010 1101110101 1001011011 1111111011 10010101010 10010010101 1101010001 0111011111 1110011101 10010100101 11010111010 1111011111 1110010101 1011110111 11110000101 11010100101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 11010010111 1101110101 11010000101 1101010111 0111010001 1101110101 1111011100 01001111101 0011011101 0101011100 11010111011 1111010101 1101111111 1101111111 1001011101 0111010101 1111101101 1111011101 1111111111 1101010101 11010011001 1001110011 10010100101 1101100111 01010101010 0110111101 10011000101 11010100111 1110010111 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his, that, and, he, they, heimdall, still, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines perchance is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase knows connects the lines.
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- summary of Heimdall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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