This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xiv. -- The Crew Of The Long Serpent by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Safe at anchor in Drontheim bay
King Olaf's fleet assembled lay,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcXcb ddeddde ffgXeeg hXdddXd iidcccX hhidddi jjekkke eegdXdg aXbXdXb
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 11100101 11010101 110111 10101110 11001010 100101110 01101 010011101 10110101 011111 010111010 110101010 110101010 101001 1110101 1010111 110111 100101110 10101010 101010111 10101 1011111 1110100 010111 10101010 11101010 11101110 10101 1010001 0010101 10101 10101110 10101110 10100010 00100 0011111 1010111 10111 10111010 101001010 10111010 10101 1110111 0110101 10101 10001010 00101010 00111010 10101 1110001 1111101 100101 11111110 10101100 10111010 11101 1010111 1010100 10101 101111100 11111110 101111000 10101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 63
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, with
Anaphora
his, with
