This is an analysis of the poem Calthon And Colmal that begins with:
This piece, as many more of Ossian's compositions, is addressed to one of the first Christian missionaries. The story of the poem is handed down by... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X a a X a X X b X c a b c 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101010001010011010100100010010110101001000100101111001010100101001000111011110110001011011101101010011010011001100101001010100110110101101110001010010101011101001001110100110101011000111101010111111010001010110011100101011101010010010110010010010011100010101101001010110101001001000110010101011001011001101010011001010001010100100101111111010101000101010100010011001010 10001011110100010110100101010111100110001011111100110010100111110010101011011111010010010101101010101011011010100110010010110101011111010110100101101110101110001111011001010101001001010101000101111011001010101010010010011111011010010010100 101010100101001010100101011111010010111010010101101110111010100110010011100010010010101010101001111100100010101110011011101110 1011001010111011001010011011011001110101010100101110100111001001110010111101001011100111010101101101100111110101111001100101101001011111001110100101001011100110101011010100101011111 01001001010011111001110101100100010011101010011110101111011101110101110101011010101001011111101010101101001010111010111110011101010101001100110010010110010101101001 1001010011100010111100101010101011010101101101110111000111101011010010101010100010110010010100100101100100011011010011101101111101010011101010111101011011010110101010101111111010100010100 1010100010110111111011101010111111001010101010101100010010001010101110100110101011111011111010 010101010111110110010101111110110010100101010101011001001110101010111010010010101101011101010101011011100101011011001010101011101101000100101 1101100101101010101010101110111011101011101011111011011101001010100101011110101011110111101110110101011110101111011000101101010 1010010011111001101111110101110110110101001111001010101110010101110100110111001011111111101011110101010010101011101010001001010111100100010010111011010110111001110010111001 11100101100101010111001010111101111010101100100111010111101001110101101000111010111101101111101100101010111101001010101110110101110101010101010101 110101010101011110101110101101010101011001011110101001010111110111011011001011101010010101001110101110100101111001111001010101110110010110101 110101000110101011100101001110111101101111111100111101010101110101010011000010010011010010101010100010110010010101011100101111010111101010111010100100101110101010101110101101001110101000101011010101 1101011111011011111010101011010101110111000100110101101100100111001111011101101010101111001011110100101010001111011011101001110101010101011101011110010010101101011010010010100 101101100101010110111001010101100111101010111101101000101011101010010101001101110100101100101000101010111111010100110010 1101001001010111010100111010001011011010110111110100111011111010101110101 110011101110011110101111111101011011011110001100101001101111101010 11100110110111010100111110011010011000100111000101011110111110101111101001111011001011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 667 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 123
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, to, and, dunthalmo, their, rathmor, they, he, with, my, on, came, by, teutha, rock, not, it, ossian, two, sons, hall, soul, chief, clutha, them, calthon, for, fell, saw, him, death, feast, battle, but, colmar, that, at, fingal, son, other, walls, ossian's, thou, joy, song, forth, youth, her, i, arise, she, fly, from, night, king, rose, colmal, steel, dark, lovely, thousand, spear, eye, lamgal, what, thy, stood, teutha's, when, like, before, side, rolled, our, eyes, fame, stream, sound, rushed, tears, we, hand, rise, fallen are repeated.
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