This is an analysis of the poem Argument that begins with:
Fingal when very young, making a voyage to the Orkney Islands, was driven by stress of weather into a bay of Scandinavia, near the residence of... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X a b a X b a X X X X X X X X X c X X b X c X cXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101100100010101101101000010101001010001010101001100011010010011100010101010001001101001001100100101110111000100100010100010001011010101001010011010010010101101011010010100010010100010010001001011010010101101011001001001001001000101000101101101000100010101100100010010100 0101011010010010010101011011100010101 0100101 111000111000100101110010111111111010111001001111001001011010011110010010011001011011001010001011101001000101 10101001001100011010100111010110101010110110011101111001001110111010110100111010011101011011101001010111001011010101101001011011111101010010011101010111001000101111101110010010101011011010010111101011101010 01011101111111111101000111010101011110011101111100110101010101010101 1100101 001111100101001110001001111111100100010011101111111100 1101010111010110011110101101101010011110010101111011101010111001010101011111101110001011101001010010111111011011001011010010100110010110101011011010111011011101010 1001001100110101101001100101000101110101101111001110100001010100 1010101110101011101011111010101110101001101010101011101100101010111110101111111001111010001 1001001101110111111011111111100101011011101010110110110101010110110010111110101011011001001100101111010111010110010101110100 1011011010010 1100101 101101100 110001 011010011101010 100100111011101011111010111010111100100111011111010011101010101110111101011111011010101110111011111111111011001110100110101011111011101010101011011011111100111101011110010101111110100111111111010111011110111010010111001101010101111100110 1001001101010100101101010010111110111111011000101101001101001100101001010010101111011011111110111101110101010110100101110101010 100101011101001010101010110111010111010101110101000111010100111001110010011101110101011100101011100101100111010101111110111110111101010010101 110101001001011001110010110001100101100001010101010101101011101100111110011010101101010011101110101110101011011001110101110111110101001110111 101001001010101010101010101011110100111001011100101010011111110101101 0101100111010010110101000100100111001001001010110010111010101010011101011110101101011011101100101110010101101110111001010 11011001011110100011010110100110101111101010010010010010010111011001010101010101011010100100110101001010101010 01011001010101110010101110110111010011001011001010000101110111111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 357 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 64
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, fingal, starno, and, king, by, thou, his, in, on, from, wind, no, come, i, soul, each, they, dweller, my, he, arms, night, her, over, maruno, not, duth, tell, thy, dark, at, torcul, torno, me, their, white, said, cave, gathered, swaran, with, two, tree, forward, stream, shield, through are repeated.
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- summary of Argument;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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