This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xi. -- Bishop Sigurd At Salten Fiord by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Loud the anngy wind was wailing
As King Olaf's ships came sailing…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbd eecd ccXd bbXX dddc dXde ddde ddbf ccXf aXgb dXgb aahi jjhi aakX XhkX ddhd llhd bbaX bbad dXdbXjjdb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10101110 11101110 10101010 0010101 10101110 11101010 10101010 00100111 10101110 10101110 11101010 1011101 10111011 10101011 10111110 1011101 1001010010 11100010 10101100 1011001 00111010 10100010 11001010 1010011 10111010 001111000 10101110 1010111 10101010 10101110 10101110 11100100 10001110 11101010 10111010 10011101 100111010 10111010 10101010 1110101 11111110 10101010 10111011 10100111 11101110 10101110 110101011 0011101 10111010 00111110 01111010 1111101 100111111 11001111 11101010 1011111 11101111 10111110 10100110 0011111 10101010 10101110 10111110 11110110 10101010 10101010 11101110 11101101 10111110 11111110 10101110 1011001 10111110 10111110 11101010 1010101 01101110 10111010 11101010 1010001 11101110 10111110 10101010 1010001 101011101 10101111 11101010 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
and, him
Anaphora
loud, steadily, not, southward
Epiphora
him
