Analysis of Battle of Time
Monday
Moon day
Just passing through
Tuesday
Winged gods
They swoop on you
Wednesday
Woden’s day
Trade the love you knew
Thursday
Thor’s thunder
It may rain on you
Friday
Freya’s day
Week of bondage through
Saturday
Oh Saturn day
Don’t let it grow on you
For Sunday
Sun day
It will come quite soon
Shining Through On
The day of the moon
Arrives yet again
A battle with
Time
A battle
Tyr wins
Odin
The father
Of gods some unknown
Stands before Thor
Wild he roams
Freya
His lover
Never his home
Sun sets
on this Love
Until Khronu’s dethroned
Sun never vanquished
The day now his own
Sets in the distant
Giving light to first moon
| Scheme | ABC AXC ABC BDC ABC ABC BBE X EXXXXXXDFXXXDXXXXXFXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 11 1101 10 11 1111 10 11 10111 1 110 11111 10 11 11101 100 1101 111111 11 11 11111 1011 01101 01101 0101 1 010 11 10 010 11101 1011 111 10 110 1011 11 111 01101 11010 01111 10010 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 649 |
| Words | 129 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 21 |
| Lines Amount | 43 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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The meaning of the names of weekdays
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