This is an analysis of the poem Sul-Malla Of Lumon. that begins with:

This poem, which, properly speaking, is a continuation of the last, opens with an address to Sul-malla, the daughter of the king of Inis-huna, whom... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a X b X c X c a a X a X b X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110010000101000110011101100100010101011011011101001001111001101100011010000101111010101101111001011101001000101011000100100101011010010010100101010010101011010110100101110011100001110010100010010001001011010011010101101010 11110110101001010011010101100101111101111100101011010101111011101011100101010101011011000110011110100101100101011110101001110101101010011101011010101111100101011111000111111011111010001110101 010111011111011101011101111100010111110001001010011100101010011101010110111001110110101011011101111101010 101000101101100010101011011010100001110101000101001101010000100111101010111111011011011001001011010011111100101010111010101011001010101001000100100111010110101010101101010100010111110110100010010011101011110100110011111100100010100101110101010101 10010100101010101010011010110110101110001110101010101010010010001101101110110101101011100111101101001000010111110011001010 10011100111001000011110111101010101111011010110101001001110001 1010110101111001111010011101010101110110110101010110011011001010010111110101000101 111101001111010111010101110110110010001010110010110111010110010010101011110101010011 1001101101101010101110010111101110101110011111101010101011011100101010010011110101010101 1010101011111001111111111101010100101010101110110101001111000101111111111101010101 101101011101001101001001101110110111101110101111011101110100111010101010011111110101 11010110010101100010011101011101011101101001010101010111010011010111101001010101010100101010101010100101010110001100101101011110111110111110011001100101 10110010011101010010110110010110100010100101010101011110101110101111111010111101111101010111010110111010101011100111111001010100 1101111001010001110101101001011100101001110101010101010011010010110101010110111010110110011010101001 1110101010101101011010111101011101100111111101011101110101001 100101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 458 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 84
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, his, her, and, to, at, he, from, ossian, sul, malla, on, she, by, not, kings, huna, inis, king, fingal, like, came, night, cluba, absent, who, other, father, white, said, their, feast, blue, our, eyes, nor, sound, daughter, heard, amidst, with, they, isle, i, erin, cathmor, streams, my, dark, lay, earth, winds, wing, we, fell, mixed, when, no, dronlo, suran are repeated.

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