This is an analysis of the poem M'Fingal - Canto Iii that begins with:

Now warm with ministerial ire,
Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,4,18,174,8,50,16,146,18,6,30,24,46,28,4,26,14,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 236
  • Amount of lines: 679
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, and, your, to, his, for, their, with, from, in, nor, him, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, or, nor, his are repeated.

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

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

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