This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xiii. -- The Building Of The Long Serpent by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Thorberg Skafting, master-builder,
In his ship-yard by the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXX cdced XfdXf cgcdg ahaXX fhfXh igidg djXej didii dddkX dcdfc Xlaal ddXXX dhdeX cmcgm Xbfkb chcXh
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 10101010 0011101 10111010 10111010 10111 11101010 1011101 11101010 11101010 11111 11101010 1110111 10111110 11101110 10101 1110010110 1011101 10111110 100110010 10101 10101010 0110001 10101010 11101010 10101 10101010 1010111 10101110 11100110 00101 00101000 1010101 11101001 11101010 10101 111111110 0011101 00111010 10100010 11111 10101010 1010111 00111010 10110110 10101 11111110 1010101 100101010 10111011 10101 00111010 1010101 11111010 10111110 10111 1000101 0111101 10100010 10101110 10101 10101010 1010101 11001100 10011010 11101 11111010 1010101 01101110 10001110 111100 100111010 1010101 10101110 10101010 00101 11100010 0011101 110100110 10111011 11111 01101110 1010111 11001010 10101010 10101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 85
Repeated words/phrases
and, his
Anaphora
any
