This is an analysis of the poem Oithona that begins with:
Gaul, the son of Morni, attended Lathmon into his own country, after his being defeated in Morven, as related in a preceding poem. He was kindly... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001010000110100100100101010000101011101011101001011010010100010111010011011111100011100101110100001000101111011111011000100001010101101011011010010101001110011011100010010010010100100100101001000100011110111100111000100100100101011010001 101101010100111010001011100111011100100010110010100101110100001011110110000100011010100101010011101001000011010110110001111001011000100010111001010100101001010101011110010110101010010101101010010010010010000101100101010010010100 1010110010111011010100110101110001010101001011011001111010111001010101000110101001010010011101101110011000010010111100010011010100111010100010010111111001001101001111111101001010010010 100101111010010010101101010000101100110101001101111010101010101101011111100101010111010110100101110110111101001 101010101001011001001010101010111101001011101110101011101001111001101110111010101111000101001110101101001101110110101101100111110111011010011010010011110010 0101110101010101101011100100110011001101010111010110101010101110001110101001101101101011001001011101011100110111101010101111111100111011010101010111011101011110100101011111 100010101011111011111101011010011110101001100010111100110101001110010100111101101011010101110100011100111101110 1110100010111101100111011010101110101010100011101101110101101111111011010111001111110110001010101111101101010010101001111001011001001011111010001110100 10101111001110101011001111011110011011111110110110111101001101101010101010111011010101010010010 1001001100101001011011010101010111010111111011111011010011101010111111110100100111110010101110010101001101100111010111111010101110011000100101110010010001101010111110011010010110100111010111011110101010101001110100011010010110110111010100110101111111111111011110110111110111001010010001010010111001001100100111011111101010101000110 1011010100111100011111010110011111101111111011011011010110010100101111001010101011101101111101 1001001010111011011010101010110101110010101100100111010100110001010101110111101010101 1010100100101011011011010101110100110101000101101100101000111011010010101000010110101001001011110100010110010111011110100101100 11111101110110101101101001001110101010101010101011001111011100100111111010111100100100 101001100101010101011010101110110100101010101101010001001010010010111010101101011110101101010101001100110101110110101110010100101011111110101 1101011110010111110100101110010101011111101001111101010111101000100100101011111110111100110 11100010101000100101111011110010110111110101001111010001010101000101110010110111011001010110100100 010100101010101001110100111010101011110110010110010011100010111110111010100111111110000110111110110101011111111011010110110010 1111010100101001011101011010001101010010100010001010110111100100111111100110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 573 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 108
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, in, and, his, her, he, oithona, on, with, gaul, she, but, not, returned, into, lathmon, by, thy, thou, dunlathmon, for, day, no, at, dunrommath, daughter, love, nu, son, morni, till, th, my, tears, stood, soul, eyes, came, dark, lovely, night, winds, from, i, chief, rock, sea, that, when, our, why, it, thon, trom, heard, me, be, its, low, sword, eye, come, feeble, red, like, their, have, hand, youth, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gaul is repeated.
The author used the same word gaul at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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