This is an analysis of Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Musician's Tale; The Ballad Of Carmilhan - I. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
At Stralsund, by the Baltic Sea,
Within the sandy bar,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdddd ceffe gXXhg dhXhh Xgccg Xihhi cdjjd
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11100101 10111101 001001 01010101 110101 11010101 010010111 010001 11010001 110111 111101011 11010101 011111 111100101 011000 01000101 01000101 1100101 01110001 010101 01100110 11011111 111111 11010111 1101001 11011101 11010111 110100 11100101 010001 00011001 11001111 110111 11011101 100001 00010101 01011101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
at, and, of, sometimes, them
Anaphora
the, and, sometimes, he
