This is an analysis of the poem Fingal - Book Iv that begins with:
ARGUMENT.
The action of the poem being suspended by night, Ossian takes the opportunity to relate his own actions at the lake of Lego, and his... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X a X X X X X a X b c a X c X X b X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 0100010100101110101010000101101010101011010001101001011111010101001000100010101111110110100100010010100101010110111101010010111010100100001010011010100101111100010110000111010101101101001001100101010010010111101001001010100110110111000100010100111110111001011010010001010110010010000111101010011110101010111001000110001101000010100100101010111001010011001001101010101010101001001101100110100101010011001001110101010111100100100110101100101011010101001000110011000101110101 1100100110100100100001001010111001010111111010010101110010110010100101111011010010101011010101101001 10000101111110111111110111000111000001110110010010010101011010100100100100111000111011010010101011011001010101011010101010001011101110101110010011101011101011011101010001111111001001100111010 11001001011100011001101110101001110101010010101001000101110111101100111010110110001001100010110010100010101100101010101001010010010101010110001001010010100101100101000101111100011101101010 10011001101101010010001111110101010001011001011111110010101010111111101111101101010111010111110101010101010111110111110101101010111110111010100101010 11010101010101010011101110101010000111010101011011100111101011111010110101111111010110110101110101011000101110101110101111001011101111010010100111010101111101 11110101100011010110010101110100011011110011110101101111101110111011111010111111101101000111110111010110101001101011010101010101010101101111010001110101010111010110101010100010 101100011111010111001011110010101011001010101000110010010110101101001111010101001001110101100101110010010110111010110110110101001001100011001111110000101010101010111001001110100101001101010 010100111100001010101010110111011011001011001001010101011010101010101111011110100111110111111010111010111001110 011101010111010010110001001001111111010010101111111101110001010110011101001010100101010101001010001000011011100101001001001 1001001011100100101001010101010111111010010110011101110100101010101010111111010111011110101110001010011101001110011110101010010111111011011011101101100011111000101010100010101010111010010101001010101100100101110101111111101011111110011101010 11011101110011001010100010101010011000010010111001011110111011101110101010101001111011110010001111111 1100101010101110100101000111110101010100010111011101010101110101001111101011010101101101101001010110011010010111010101110111010111110101010011010011110101010010101011110110101011100001111111011010110101010101101111101110111101111010010111000011010100100 10111111110101111101001011011111110010011101011101110111011111011101111100110101010110010111111 111101101000100100101101101000100010010101111001010101111111001011010011111101101011011011100111101101101111111010111001001110101010101011101001110100101011 1101110110100101000111001101110101101011110010101010001010101100100101010111010101101010111001011000101001110101110100100111110110010101110111111111000111101111011010111111010011111101011001010011101100010111110101011010101010101 10110101111010110100101001011111101001011010001111010100100111011011101010100101110110100101101001001010110010011111011001101101111111101010110101001101001001100101110001110111010100101010010110101010101 101010101001001001010011111010010101101110110110100101101101010101100111001011100101010101001001001011010111000101101001101010001111010101011101011011010010001110010011100110101100101101110010111010101110101 10001010100110100111011110110110101101111011010101001001110010101010101101111111010010011101010000 1000111010111010100101000110110100010101010101010001101010110111011110101111101111111111010011100110101011110101000110110001011001010111010100 110101001111101010101010011010011110101111001011100101001101010101101010101100100110110101001010010111011111101101010011111101110011101011110101111010111001101010100110010111011110101101010110111010010010111010111010101001011100101110101011010100110110001100101101111011111011101011010111111010111 0111101010100111110011100110011000111110010101010101000111111010110010010101100100101111110111110101010110101000110111101101010100 1000010101010010111010101010010101110101111101111101010110101101110011101010101100101011010101010101001001101101110100101011111101000101011100100111010010010101010 10101001011010101011010110110110100100110111001010101011010101000110010100101111001010110111110101010010100100110111001010100011101111011110110100101110010100110101110100111110110111111001111100101100101110101001011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 713 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 132
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, his, and, with, fingal, who, he, in, from, battle, hill, by, swaran, oscar, had, gaul, my, actions, on, night, himself, i, maid, son, there, heroes, sons, her, everallin, times, she, branno, not, ogar, dark, graceful, ossian, cormac, me, when, so, over, they, king, that, like, voice, hand, why, said, came, their, lena, often, clouds, face, started, morven, shield, as, may, sword, red, come, fight, steel, chief, o, cloud, meet, fame, fall, remember, father, your, hair, wind, you, ye, war, death, round, at, it, high, arm, rock, around, but, remind, thy, heart, be, hero, each, song, heath, thou, hast, arms, let, bloody, fell, or, have, roaring, lochlin, seen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, fingal are repeated.
The author used the same words the, fingal at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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