This is an analysis of the poem Croma that begins with:
Malvina, the daughter of Toscar, is overheard by Ossian lamenting the death of Oscar her lover. Ossian, to divert her grief, relates his own actions... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a X X X X X b X b X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001001011100100101001010001010101100101011101110010110010101001001000110101001000100010110010101010101011011110110010100100101001010010001001000100011010010001001010111101110111010110100 10101010011100111011101010101100110000101010100101000010100101011011010100010100101101011011001010101010001001001010 101010111011001001010110111001001010101101001011111010111101000111111110011010011101100101001011110011010111010111101110101001001010111011011 10110001001010101011010010011101001011101010110100111011111110100101111110010100101101010101110001110101011101001001010101111111111001010111010100101100110 100110101100101011101000101001011111111101001011101001001001111010011110100010101010101100101111001001110101011001011111110110101101110011001111100101010001010100101011101001001 010101111110001010001010101010011010101001010110010010001111101011011010101010101011110011001101010101001110101101110001010110101010010101110111010110100111001010110101110110110111101010 100010101101011111110111011101110110101110110010101011111110101010101110011110101011101110111110101011110 1111001110001101100110111101111011101101010110101001010011010110111110101101100111110100100010101011100011011100011101010010110110011101010110101101101011101011101001001 11010100110100101111111011110101110100100101111001110100110010111101011010101000100101001010101111111111101001101001011101101101011111101111110101110010111111101101101111100101110100101110001111001010101111010011101001010011100101001010101100100111000111110010100100011110110111001111110101111110111101000101011111110111101010111101110001010111001011111101011110111101111110000111101111001001011111010101010 00110101101111111010100111101011111010111010010110101011110101010110101101011100111010111101011111101000111101010011010001111010101 0101000101001111111110111110101011111011011001101010111101001011101001001011110100010010101011101010110 1111110001110101011011101111111010011100011100100111110101001011101111001010110001111111110001101111011101010100101000111111001110010100101100100110110011010101111110101110100101101110011101011010101101111011110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 733
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 678 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 129
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, to, crothar, in, my, ossian, malvina, and, rothmar, he, king, her, croma, but, for, son, being, on, love, who, voice, thy, thou, with, when, lovely, i, me, it, had, o, failed, eyes, arm, chief, youth, like, fingal, song, they, into, strength, that, joy, not, hall, great, let, people, before, heard, no, father, all, arms, feast, soul, came, him, at, arose, returned, their, aged, sigh, meet, said, spread, sword are repeated.
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