This is an analysis of the poem Conlath And Cuthona that begins with:

ARGUMENT.
Conlath was the youngest of Morni's sons, and brother to the celebrated Gaul. He was in love with Cuthona, the daughter of Rumar, when... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b X X c a a b b X d cXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 101010010111000101011101010001001011001010001001100101010011011011110000110100010001101101010111111001001100100011001010100110001110011111101000110010100111010001110111110101010101001111111001110011000110111101011101010010100111001001010010101010101001101101010111001001010010010001100110100100011010001011011100001101 01101011000101111110101000101110101111010010010111011100101111101010001010101110011010001010110001010101110010011111111111010011111111010101001010100111101010111101111010101001 101010110100010010111000110101110111111011111011111110011001010 101111101111011111110101011010100010011010110101101101101101001001101111111111010100111101101011111010101101110101001001011101011101101100110011011001101011101001011111101 1001110011010111011010010101011011101011011010110110110101101111101011101110101111111101 1001110110101110101110010110010110011001011101111001111010111100100101010010111011011101110010101010111101111100101 1010001010110010111110100101110010011000101011101011101001010101010110101110101110100110011110101100101010111011101010101001011110101110001011101110011100010111010111010101011101010101010111110001011110101110010010111111100101 1000101110010111101010110110100100101010101010011011101100110101010001011101111100010010011101111110100101 10100101001001001001010010101110001111010010111011011001111010101010111101100100101010011111001001110101001001010 100111101010010110110101111110011111110110001010110011011100101 1011011111101010101010011010100011011010101101011110111000101010101111110101111111010101001010011101011010001010100110110110111010101011110111111100010101111101110101111100010101111101111101001110001 01011011110011101100101110101011011110110111011110011111011111110111111111001111010011111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 516 (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, and, in, conlath, he, by, son, it, on, thee, with, their, ossian, his, voice, long, not, hear, my, that, times, cuthona, for, i, him, after, thy, our, behold, thona, fercuth, o, night, friends, me, let, dark, toscar, its, rocks, her, sea, she, but, like, where, peace, generous, distant, mora, sun, halls, soul are repeated.

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