This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Iv. -- Queen Sigrid The Haughty by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Queen Sigrid the Haughty sat proud and aloft
In her chamber, that looked over meadow and croft.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaAB Xa cc dX ee dX cX ff ee aa cc dX eX gg dX hh ii XX dX XX jj ee ii ee XXAB
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Metre: 11001011101 001011101111 110 111101 0101001110 100101101 1101111011 0101011011 101011001101 0101101100 1100111101 0110101001 0100100101 101100100 111100101 01001101010 11011011001 100100101 0100110101 00101101 1101100101 1011100111 11100100101 1111100101 1100100101 111111101 111011001101 0100101101 01011001011 110101011 100111100 1001100101 0111110101 1011100101 11011111001 11001101101 111001111011 011011011101 10111101001 01011001011 10110100101 11111011111 101011011001 11001011101 1111101111 11011001001 011101111 11101001001 11001001011 1010111001 11001011001 1011101011 110 111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 25
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, her, king
Anaphora
the
