This is an analysis of the poem Berrathah that begins with:
ARGUMENT.
Fingal, in his voyage to Lochlin, whither he had been invited by Starno, the father of Agandecca, touched at Berrathon an island of... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b c X c X X X d e a X X d X X X X X b X c e X a a 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 100010010101100101100100100011100110010100111101011100101001110100001101001010001011101011101010100010001010111101011001000101101001010101000100010010101101101010101010010010011001001101110111100101010110110100010101101000101010101001101110101000101011000100100101110101010101111010100101011000110100111000111011001010010 01010011001010010010010110001000101 1111111010101010111100011011101101001101110100101010101101100110110111100010110110001010010110010111101101010100111110110110101011101110111101101010100110010101110010111001111011000101110001001011111010011101110001010101100101 010111011001101110011111001001010111010110010101001111010101001010011101101000111010101110111110011101011010111010111110101010 1001111011111111010101001010110110011111101010010101110111011111010001011111010100100101110101001010100111110110101000100110101001101110110100110100010010101010100101000101110010101011111010011010110101 011101111101010110110111001010101000101001010101010001010101110001100010110101011011110110100010010101001010111011101010111011101010011111101010010101101011011111100101010010110110100110100111011110100 1110010101010101010110010101111111010101001100101010111111011101010101111110111101010101000110100101101010 1110101011101010010011010111010001111101110101001011010100010011101100100101110010010010101011011110011011111010101011110011110010011001010 010100101111001101010111111101111110101010001010111001010101010101101010101110101001010001101110100101010111001001011101101100101 1101001010101101100101010111101010111010100101111011010101011010101100101011100101000101001110101010101010101000011010111011101111101011101100111100111101010001 111101001010111111001011111111101010101000111010110101011010101010010011101010010111010111101010111010101100011101001001101011100101110101 10101111110010010110111101101010101110110111001001101101001011000110111010011111110101110010010111010010111111010010101011110110111101111111011011100 0110011111010011101001111010110001000111001111010101100010011100110111101011010101011110100110111001110101011100010100001001011001100101101010110110001110111001001011010010101111001 01010011101010110011110111110110011111101110101011001110111001001001011101001001111101101001011110010101001100110101110100100100110101010101111101010011010001 111010101110010010101001011101101010010001010111000010101000010111011110010101001010010111001010101110101101001001001010111101110111010110011010100100 1000011101100101111100100101110101010101111001111101011101001111010101011111011010110100 1100100111010111101111010101010111111111010111111111111010110101110101011010110111110101110101110101001011111001010110111011011110111011111011110101011001010110111011011011100 10101101110101011011110011101010110110100100110100010101110101011111010101011111011010100100111110110111111111010111011101111101111110110111011101110 1110011101010101100101010010101111111101110010101101110101010110010110111101010011101011010100111101110111011100010100100101101001011010110010111001101001010 111011010100100011110001010101010011111001001001111001101010110010110110101011110111010101011111101001001011110111100010101 101111110010010110100101010010100111110101011101001010001011001100111011101000101110101101010101111010100001010111111110111101110111101001111110110111101001111001001111101101011111101111010110 10111001101011111010010011101011001010111011101101011001101000111011010111011101011100111101110110101010110111010100010111101111100101111100011011111 1100110100101010101100110111010100010101100100101111101010100101010111111001101000100101101100101011111101001110110011011110110101111101110111100101010101011011101010101 10011101010111111010101010101100101111101001010111010 11011011111011101110100111111010100010001010011110101001101110011110101100101110001110010011111101001001110001111001011110101101010110101010011111010110010010011101100110111001010111100101101010 10001000101010111010101100100111101011110101011101111111010101010011010110111101100011101010101011010101101101111011011111111010101011010101101111101001010101110101100111110101011111111101010010101101110011101 1011111010110101101010110101110111010100110101011010101101010101010101101001011101111111 101101110101011101001010010010010111101111101011111101111010101101100111000010010
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 605 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 115
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, by, to, larthmor, his, with, uthal, he, toscar, thoma, berrathon, death, him, nina, ossian, thou, thy, on, it, o, they, come, their, but, lutha, my, malvina, i, there, its, voice, field, not, where, son, fingal, like, blue, at, daughter, covered, darkness, cona, her, that, among, be, hall, me, hast, art, breeze, sit, half, over, soon, rock, our, king, when, spear, days, wind, sea, came, dark, from, high, maid, she, steps, alone, thormo, as, fin, heard, moon, sword, lift, course, bard, fallen, people, tell, heath, said, would, sound, had, we, rose, your, tomb, saw, rest, halls, youth, heroes, song, have, tears, winds, harp, has, away, 'come, depart, near, alpin, aged, been, hear, all, clouds, blast, bends, gray are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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