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

ARGUMENT.
The poet, after a short address to the harp of Cona, describes the arrangement of both armies on either side of the river Lubar. Fingal... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X a b b X X X b X X X X X X c X X X X d X X X X d c b X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 0101001110010100100100110110100101010100101011011101010101101000100010100011001001000110010110010011001011001011101101110100111010110101110010101101101100101001111010101001101010101010101011001001101010110000010100110111001001001010101010110001101011001110100100110 110010111110101010111111111110011011101010010100101110101110010011010001111101010011111111010110110110111001110101 100101100100011101111010110011101101010100111011010100011101111100110011011111001001110111111111111101 01010100110101011111010010001010110001001010101010000101011111010100010010001011110100101010110101101010101010101101010011101010100110111111101011000101 1010100110101010110011001010101111101110100011110101000100111110011100101011101011010111010101010101010010110101 100101010010101111010010011101001100101011110101010111011111011001010110100011111100111111111010011100110011111111001011001111010111111010011111110101010111010101010010010110101110101011111010010111000110011100010 0111101010101100010100111010101100101100111001011010111101010110010110100010111111111100101011110111010101010100110100101011010111101011111101001111101111101011110101001010110010011111010111110110111010 1110001001110111111001010101010101010010101101111010010011111010101100100111001001111001001010101 01110101011101101101001001011001010100100111010111010101111010110111101011011111101001111011101011101011111011100111110 1001010010111011111110111101101110100111011010110100101010101110101011110101001101010111111010 11010100111000110110111110101011110101010100111111101001101111001110101110111111010001010110101011100110001001001010010010011111110100111010111010100101110011010100011011011110101010 10110101101010101001010110100101001110101010101010010100101011010110110111100101010110011010111111101101101010111010110101101110111101001001010 10101010011100010111111100101110101110111010101101011010101010011010111001011001 1101001101111011101110010110010110110101111111011110101011010101110011001010 101010011101011101010111010101110100101110101 01010111110101100111010101100101001010101101011101111010101011010111111011110111101001101001101111101111010 110101010101011010101111111011101011111100010010111101101101111010011010011101011111101001010111010 11010101110101010100100101100111010111111110111011110111110111010001010110101011010101111110111100011101101010 10011001110101111010110111111010111101011110101000101100110011101010110101011110101001110100100110100111010100010111111101101100101101100110011011111000010101011000111111101 111111001101011101111100010111101001101100101110111010110011111001010100101011101011010111010111101110101110111010001 1011010101010111011010110101010100101101010111100111101010101010101010011011100 1010101110101011001001110100101111101001010110111011011100111001010010101100111110101010101101101010110100010101101110100 10000110110100110111010100110010110111001111000110101111011101101101010010111110101010111010 01100101001010111111001010001001010101100101011101100100101010111000100101010101101111101011000110111101110010100111000111010011111010 1101010010010100101101101111101011010010011101001 100110111010011101011111101 10111011101110101010100011101001110000111010111010100101001011110110111011001 101001111010101100101011101010110010100101010010101010101111010101100111011110101111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 471 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 87
  • 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, fillan, foldath, son, towards, but, dermid, him, with, on, harp, when, his, their, he, they, not, like, before, them, near, war, at, flame, winds, cathmor, voice, fingal, my, its, people, your, i, shield, from, as, two, fall, behold, let, king, fame, dark, locks, it, mighty, steel, gaul, field, once, strode, thou, that, over, her, streams, fallen, allin, cul, thy, culmin, then, why, morni, chief, beholds, steps, joy, side, blue, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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