This is an analysis of the poem Cathlin Of Clutha that begins with:
An address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar. The poet relates the arrival of Cathlin in Selma, to solicit aid against Duth-carmor of Cluba, who had... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X X X X b a X X X X b 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010010010010010010010001010111001011110101001010100100101010101011000100101010110001010000101101001001010110110010010110110110100110101011101101001010001011000110111001010010101000011101010001000101001100100100101010101010110100111001100101101001100010000100100011101011111110010110 1111110010001010110110111001110110110110100110110101001001111101110010100101001111010001111010101 11101100101110101111101010101011010100100100100011010011101001111101011001010001001001011010111111011111111110010001 001001001011110101111010101101001101010111010111001011100101101010101001001100111001010100011111011100101101010010100111100100111101000101011111010010111011110100100 10110100101101111101111101011111010100101110101011011101110100111010111101011011110110101110110100011001101010111011011010100111011111010101 110001011010111101110001000100011111001101010001011001011101011010110100100111011101100010011110111011010111010111010110110111111000010 11101001110100111011110110001010010110111110011111111010101011110010011111110111111011011000101111010110110010100101101110111101010101001 011001001110001111100100100100101011011011011001011101010110101011101100101100011101101001110110010101010110010111110101010101110110101111010100101010110101010010101100110111 11001000110100111110101100101101001001011111001011100010101101111111110110101011110101 1000100111101010110111010111101011111110010101001100100101011111110100110111011101101010011001111101011010100111011001111111010010010 10010010011011011001101011101101111110010101110110100100101010110100111010101101111010001001011110111110101110101001110011101101111101011010111110010101111001010101 111011101011101101001111010101011110111011101001011101011101010101011011111011011110110100011010011011011010101011010010000111111101010 0110101011101010111110101010010011101010101011111001001000011111010111010111001010101010111001011010101 10010010100101110110101110010101101011101110010101011101101110101000101110010101010110101101101110010101010101010111111010011110 1101001110101101010101110110101010101011110010010011010011010010101010110100101010101101010011111101010110101010111101001101110110100101110101 11010010111110101011010001011000101100010111011010010110101 1001001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 531 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 99
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, from, in, his, on, night, and, that, had, who, duth, carmor, by, cathlin, thou, battle, ossian, hill, oscar, they, retired, daughter, my, lonely, song, we, i, came, shield, forward, its, as, seen, our, us, dead, echoing, ghosts, marked, like, with, dark, he, their, kings, rath, field, eyes, winds, beam, soul, son, light, it, but, before, mail, clutha, forth, cathmol, not, arms are repeated.
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