This is an analysis of the poem Preface To Ossian that begins with:
WITHOUT increasing his genius, the author may have improved his language, in the eleven years that the following poems have been in the hands of the... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a b c d X d c c e X aaccaaddaaffaaddccggddddcchhcciiaabbaaccffhhe c dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,45,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101001001011010100001001010010100010010100101100101101100100001011011110000010010010010100101001000110101000101110010010110001111110100100101001110010 01000111010010100101101001011010010111001100101010001010100111011100101111001000110100010010010101010100101101101010110001100111100101011100000101001100010100100101001000011 10110110101001000011110010010010010001001110010100010011101000100101100011010110111101001010010101010011111011001000101010100010100101111100100101110100010000101101101001 110100110010001001000111010010001001110001000100101111101001000101111100100101010011001011111010111010111111011101010111101000100101010101110111010111011010100000101011011001 0100100100111101001100100100111101110101010100010010101101111010100010101001010001001010100100010011110001001000110101011000010010101101101000100010010101001010010011010101101110011110010110100010 001101010010011101010110011011100010101100100110011110010100011010010001001000001000100100010010101001001001001110110010101110101001101001010000110010 1000101 1100101110100101101011011101010101101001010111011101011001110000100101010110110111011101001001 1101110111011010010101010111010100100110101010010010111100100111100111110100101110101010011010111110110011101001101011101011101001110100101 1101101110111010110010101010010101010101101010100111010101010100111010101010010111110101010101001110101010011110010011111110111101001101110111010101 11001010101110001011101010110111010111101010101111011111010010110100100101100111011011010110111001010101011101011 01100 11110101001 1101010101 1001010101 01001100101 01111100101 0101010111 1101110101 1001010001 1101010101 111110001 0101010011 1101010101 0011010111 1101010101 0111110101 11010100101 1101110101 11010000101 0111011101 1101000101 1101010101 0111000101 0101010111 1001110101 110001101 0101011101 1101110101 0101010101 11000101001 1111010111 10011000101 11010010101 0101000101 0111000101 11010110011 1111011111 1101010101 0111010101 0111010101 1101010101 0111110101 11010100101 1101011101 1101000101 1101011 1001010000100011000100100010011101010100100001011010101101001001111101011010010101011110100010111100100010101101001101110100010011010101010011010000100110010010011101011000111010101010100100100001011110110010101110001010100101101000100001000010010 10 101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 151 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 27
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, to, he, and, as, have, with, which, this, by, that, his, it, without, been, may, when, only, genius, author, who, these, them, for, age, from, they, than, harmony, be, her, on, but, nor, lulan's, waves, soul, like, all, version are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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- summary of Preface To Ossian;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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