This is an analysis of By The Fireside : Tegner's Death (Tegner's Drapa) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I heard a voice, that cried,
'Balder the Beautiful…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBXcde fgdXfh aBXdhc bgeaia cbjekk afhakk lfmhmc lddaec ejiagi gXcfXX aeXcfh cXXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 110111 100100 0101 110101 110101 010101 110101 0011 110101 10100 100101 011111 1010101 100100 0101 1101 10101 010001 100100 100101 100101 100101 100101 110101 110111 101101 100111 100111 110101 010101 100111 1111010 111101 001111 100101 0100101 111001 01110 11010010 101 0101010 110001 110101 010101 100101 110101 100101 100111 110011 1100101 1001101 10101 100111 101111 1001 111 10101 1100011 101101 101101 010101 010101 10100 110111 1101 10011 111 111001 010101 00101 0101010 10101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
the, of
Epiphora
mistletoe
