This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf Xv. -- A Little Bird In The Air by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A little bird in the air
Is singing of Thyri the fair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccbDE ccffffDE ccfggfDE bbcbbXDE hhciicDE
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0101001 01001001 0100101 101001001 00100101 101001101 111101 11010110 01100001 10100101 10100111 11001101 11101101 00110101 111101 11010110 11111111 1111111 1111111 111101001 11101101 10101001 111101 11010110 001011011 11001001 11101001 11001101 00101101 1110001 111101 11010110 1101001 001001011 01101101 0111001 1100001 11001001 111101 11010110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, away, through, they, say
Anaphora
and, she, it
