This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xii. -- King Olaf's Christmas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
At Drontheim, Olaf the King
Heard the bells of Yule-tide ring,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdaad eefggf ccahhX eeXiih hXXaaX aahhhh iiahhX eeXhhf iifccX XcXhhX fXhiih iihbXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1101001 1010111 11100101 100111 0010101 11 110111 1101011 10111001 10111011 10101111 11 10010101 1100101 11111001 1010101 101001001 101 01001011 011011011 11001001 11101001 1101011 1 110101 00101001 1010110 111001101 10100101 01 11001000 100101110 011111 11101001 01011111 111 10110111 1110101 0101101 10110101 10101001 001 1010101 110001 110101 11011101 1101101 101 1011111 1101101 01101110 1100101 101011101 11 1110101 0101111 111101 1101101 110111 10 1100111 00100111 1101100 1011101 1010101 11 1100101 010110 1010101 1010001 101111 01 1010101 1100111 00100101 1010101 010111 001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 78
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, so
Anaphora
and, 'sing
