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

ARGUMENT.
This book begins about the middle of the third night from the opening of the poem. The poet describes a kind of mist, which rose by... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X b a X X c c c b X d X X X X X X X X e d X X b X b X X X b b X b e b XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 010101010001100100001001001010111110010101101001000010011001000110110100100100010100101101010110101010100110101011101001000100101010101001001001110100110010010101010101011110100100110100010010010010110100011100101000111010110001000100101011001100100100010110000110100101101010111001001001001010101 001101001001111100110100111101101110101010101110110111101010010100111010101111010101010110100010110111010110001010101 0110010011010101110110101011101011101010011010111110101010101001010111100101 0110101010010101011010100111010101011010101011001001010100010011101001010100010010 101110101100101101101111111010001111010010101010111010101011011110101110111010100 0110101110101010111101010101111100111110110110010101010101001011101001 110101101001001011001010101111010100110101011101111001101 11011011100010110101110010111101010101011110111110111011101001101011011111 111101011100101101010111010101101010101010101010011101011010101 01011011110111011110101110101011110011101010111110110101010011110100110010100 1101011101010111010111001011000101100110101110100101110101101001110101 1011101000010001111011111011101101001010100100101100100100 10101111101010111011100100101111100101010101101110 1001001010101101001101011101101111011100010011101111111101010101010101001000111111010011010 101010101010011110010100110110111100101111011111010100 1010100101100001011011011100100001111101010111001010 1000100111100101101111011110101011111010001111101111010111010110111101010101011001001111010101111101 1000110101010111100101110101011001001101100101011100111100100111101100111010110101100100101110110101001100 01110100101100101110101000010101100101001001001001011110110110110010111110001001001111111000010010110010111100011111101110010111101011011111010110111110010101111011001010100 101011010111100110110001010101010111101111010011111101001010100001010111101110101011101011011001 1010110101111100111101110010101100101111010110101010001011010001101101111101101111101010011101001111010101110101100011110111010001 10011010110010111011010111010101010101111101011100101110010010110101011111111111101001001001011101111010111010101010100111110101010111001010101 101010111010101110110101100101100111010111100011110011101101101101011010011100101001101100011010 001101010010111011101011010101101011010101000110100010011110101 11101010110001101101000111010110110101001011010111110110101011010110110101101110010010110011010101111111110100111010010101110101110010100101101011111011001011001011110101110100111110010110101111011101 0101010011111000111110010011001001011010110100001001111110010100101111001000101 100110101010010010001001101101001101111111111011011001111101011111011111011111010101000100 100101101101011101111100100011111110010110000111111010110110010000010011010100010100110010 1000011101101110111101011010110101101101011111101101101110110101011100011111100100111001110010101010101101101110101011111101001010101111011011010111011101110001 10110101101001010110110111101110101010100111110101010010001001110010100101110111011101 1001011011101000101111111101001011100101001010111110101110011110101010001 1010101000100011110010100110110101110101101010010111010100101100010111011010 1010010101001011011100101100010110101001111011010111010100101111001111101 111011100100011111010111011111001110101011100101101111101 10011010110100110110101000100111111011110101001010101010010110 11001011101101011111010111010111001110101001001101101011001010101 1010110100010111111100101101111111110101100101111101001101011010111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 383 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 72
  • 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, from, shield, with, their, which, and, he, on, night, in, king, winding, i, fillan, dark, my, it, she, rose, half, her, thou, voice, cathmor, soul, thy, when, they, son, mor, be, vale, but, by, battle, that, its, larthon, wave, mist, him, as, times, lumon, for, inis, maids, streams are repeated.

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