This is an analysis of the poem Temora - Book Iv that begins with:

ARGUMENT
The second night continues. Fingal relates, at the feast, his own first expedition into Ireland, and his marriage with Ros-cranna, the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b X X X X c d X e c b d X X X X X e X a X X f X cXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 010101010011010111010001001010011001001010110010101001001000101000101010011001001010101010001001100110100001010010010110100010000101010100011110110010001001111010100110001011010001001001010010100111000100010001001000011010110101001001001 1001101011011101011101001001010101110101110101101001001010111110011101110110101010111110001100101110111011010111101010111110001010010101 10111101010101011101101111010111010111011111111111101011111111100111011010101001010101101010110110101010101110001011010110100010010011100010101010110110101010110110011101101010001 101010111011010110010111100111110111010111010101111101001101101010101011001111111010101110101001101110111011011011011110010010101101111101110101010010111010011110101010101 11010011111110101001010111111110111100010011010111011101010101110100101111111101010011101 110010011010010111110010101111010110110101110010011101001011110111001101111010010110001001 11110111011010110110101111011001110101010100001011110101110011111111011001010110011101100101 100001110110010010101011010011111011101010111010101010101110101010111100111011101010 11010101100011100101011010110100110110110010010010100101010111001010101111110101011101 110101010100011110110010101011101001010101001100110111011111010101011110101110011011001001010101000111101001101011101011000101110101010010111 11101110101000111001010010101100100101001011101010010111101101110111011010010010101011101100010011010101010100001001010111101011010100100010011101110111110101110011110110101111110111011001010101001100011110001001100101011110010101 0110011011111101101010110001010101100011110100111011101110101111000100101010110001110101001010111010100010001011011110100110101 1001001100100010110101011010101010101110001101011001011010111110101010111010111110011111000101010011110010 1101100110101101110011111011111110011101011110100011111010110101110111010001010011110011111011010100100010100 1001001011001010111010011101111011111011110101111111010001010010110101101011101001111110111101011010101011111101010110110011101110 100100101110100101111001111111101111110101110101001110101110011011001001010011101010111110111010101001111011111101111100 11001110111100101101100101010011011011011010101 101011011111110111110101010010110101101111001010010101010100100101001010010110001101111010010101011100101 0101001110011111100011110101001010110111100100111100101010111001001110101 101010100011111100110101011010111001101101000100111010100010111101011111110101011010100110010101010111011001101110010101011010101010101011101001010001111101001011100101101011001011101011101011111101 1010100101110101010101100111000110100101111001011101011011101111101100110111111101011101111101011100101101001011110100110101110101110101111110101110100101010101010111001110101001110111011101010001000101010101111010111110001110011111010101010100111001101110101110111011101010 110101001000010110101010100101100011010101010111011101110110011011010010111110111100101110111111100011101011001 10101001101001010010110001010001001011001011111001010010011100101100110110110100100001110101010100101011010111100010111010101110101 10010011100010111011011001001001110101011100101010111111101100111010001110101001011101010 111101011010110101110101011101001000101110100111000110111010001001010010100101010010101101011011010011101111101011010101001101101010101110111 1101010010110101111101011110100101111011110101111011100110110101111010101001001100010101111010011011101011001110111111111111111010100010101011101010111101010001011111001110001111111001000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 550
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 532 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 100
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, to, in, king, my, and, cathmor, from, chiefs, i, he, on, ', came, thy, erin, soul, it, like, but, blue, cranna, white, said, ros, her, streams, before, their, with, around, she, voice, when, song, bid, hill, hidalla, arose, at, they, field, not, thou, either, night, ye, low, soon, wind, feeble, laid, your, no, light, beam, blast, forth, away, heard, half, joy, sul, malla, that, midst, stream, steps, war, inis, there, huna, atha, dreams are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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