Analysis of Ettin Trails



This is where the ettin walks
Two-headed, three stories tall.
I’ve never heard the ettin talk,
Save for a rancorous call.
Here, he lumbers, like an oaf
Towing up into the sky,
Watching down upon the grove,
With his four golden eyes.
This giant is a savage beast
with a ram strapped to his back.
He is almost never at peace
except when he takes a nap.
The ettin lives up in the hills,
and walks between the trees,
guarding the grove from unwanted foes
and attacking those he sees.
The ettin carries an enormous club,
made from a withered old tree root.
He wears little ragged clothes
and stumbles around barefoot.


Scheme ABCBDEDFGHIJKLMLNOPQ
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 111011 1101101 1101011 1101001 111111 1010101 1010101 111101 11010101 1011111 1111011 0111101 0111001 010101 100110101 0010111 011010101 11010111 1110101 010011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 614
Words 125
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 482
Words per stanza (avg) 112

About this poem

This poem is inspired by a questline in World of Warcraft in the Redridge Mountains zone, for Alliance.

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Written on 2017

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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