This is an analysis of the poem Fingal - Book Ii that begins with:

ARGUMENT.
The ghost of Crugal, one of the Irish heroes who was killed in battle, appearing to Connal, foretells the defeat of Cuthullin in the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X a X X X X X b c a X X X X X c X b X X X b a X X X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 01010100101011101001001010000101000011011000101011010100101010110000100001000101110010111110100100110110010010001010011010010011010000111101010101001101011100110101011010001001101111011000111001010100111111011110001100010100011010101001010011111110110011101011101111000111101001010101100 101101001010101101001010011101010110101110001011010011110101000101110101010011010101011101111010101000100100101010010101100100101110101 10010011000101010100101101011111111001111001111010010100110111110111001010110101101001010 101010011111101010111010101101100111110101011101101101010110101010110010100101101101001010101011010010010110010101011111111110101010101101101111010101011111100100100101101010011111011100100 0111010010010111010110001010101001010001100101111111010111001010011101010111000101001001000101110101001011101010111010010110010001110011101111110101110010100 110100010101011101011010010111001111001010101111110111101010010101101111111110100101100101011101111110111111110110101111111011010101010100111101010 1010101010100111011100101110110100111111101010101010110111110110101100101111011110111010011100011100111110101111011110111101001110101010101011110010010010010010110010100010010111111011100100100 011101011010001101111011101110101110001011110111000111010101101010101010011110111010101 10101010011111101010101011011010100101010101011010100101010011101100100111010101110101000111110101110101110010111111001011001 10110101100101110101010101010011101010110010010101010110110111101010111010011110001101010111100011010010100101010101001101011011100110111001101 101010101010100101100111011101101110101101110110101101010101101010111010111010101010101000100111110111010011101010111111111110010111110101110101001111011100 101011101100101111011011101010101101010101011011111111010111010101000101101111101011101011101111100111010011101010010111010101111011011010101101100111010101110010101111001110001100101011110101010110110010010010111010010111011101010101001010 11010111010101011110110101101010110101001011011110101011100011010101110011011011010101110010111010001001 10001010011000101011011101010101001010100100010011101110111010100100100101010101001010101010101011100110101000100111001011100101101000101100101001110011010010101000011010100101011101011001011010 110101011101110111010010110010100110101010101011010101011100010010111110011010111110011101101010101011011000101101010111101110110101010110010010111011011111101110100110111111010010101 1100110111001001011100101111101110010111011100101001011010101101011100101110101010110010010101100101011010100101010011101110111001001 1101001101001000111111010110010111011101010010010010101111010100101110010010110100111010101010101110101010110101010101010111101011101111111011010101101101101110111111111010 1010101111110101010001011110110110110100101111010101110101110101010101110101010110111101110111101101001011010111010101001 1001011111011010110100101010101010101011011110010110101010100010110101101011110101001100101111011101100101011001010111110101001011010101110010010111011111010111001111101010001111010101111010010111010100 0111101010100111010101001110010101110100111010101110100101010110101001110010110000010100010101010000010100111011010101111100 101001010110100011110001101100101011111101101010010010100101010111011101001001100101011110010 10010101010010101110001010101101011111101010010101000101110010110011110010110101110010100011010011101 01001010011101001110100111110111110100101001 1001000101100011111110011101111011111101111010111101010011010101000010111101110101010010110111110101111010110111111100111100111110111101010111010101000111010101101011110100111101001100110011100101010101011011011111100101010011100 010001011100101100011101011001011110100111110101011101001001110101011011010101010010100010100101010 1000011100101100101101111001001001010010111010110111110001001010101001000 1010101000100101011001010101010010010110100101010101101111101000101010110110110011010010010100101010101011111010111011100111100110101101010110010101101100101001010 111000110110111101010010100101001010101001010010101010101010101101001110110011001010010111011111011001010111010111101010101010111011100 11001010010010110111011001011001010110101011101011101011101010110010111010001110100101100010111111111110101100101011101010001011010101010101110010111011000110110001010010111010111110101111101010110101111101010111001100101001011111110100111101001 010111001110101100111101001100010010111010 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 573 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 105
  • 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, he, cuthullin, connal, and, in, who, battle, swaran, by, hill, from, killed, heroes, their, my, son, crugal, thou, on, voice, over, that, like, dark, said, thy, house, not, wind, through, it, death, colgar, i, erin, form, cave, dim, pale, why, what, them, when, rise, they, fly, me, sound, sons, show, let, morla, fallen, give, her, peace, spouse, she, before, then, bow, king, sword, but, him, as, its, so, stood, winds, men, rocks, fell, wing, behind, lochlin, rushed, had, fled, with, cairbar, ships, heaven, how, clouds, damman, chief, herd, came, friend, deugala, steel, soul, or, youth, love, daughter, comal, ronan, conloch, hundred, galbina, one, foe, chase, deer, shells, steps, arrow are repeated.

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