This is an analysis of Cathloda — Duan Iii by James Macpherson.
Ossian, after some general reflections, describes the situation of Fingal, and the position of the army of Lochlin. — The conversation of Starno and Swaran. — The episode of Corman-trunar and Foina-bragal. — Starno, from his own example, recommends to Swaran to surprise Fingal, who had retired alone to a neighboring hill. Upon Swaran's refusal, Starno undertakes the enterprise himself, is overcome and taken prisoner by Fingal. He is dismissed after a severe reprimand for his cruelty.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X a a X b X X X X c X b X d d d XXc
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 10101100010010101001010010001001001010010110010101010110101000101010101000110110101001001011001010101010101010111010011010011000110110100 1001001011101111101110101 1110010111110101101011101011101101110101011110011111101100101111000101010111010011011011100110101111110 11010110111111100100110100011110100101000111010101001010101111111101110111100010111000011101011101000111010111000110111101110101 1110101110101110010111010110101011111110011111100111110100101 1100110011001010101111001010101011001011011010111100101001101111001110010110101010011001010 01010110100011001110100101110101101101011010010111001010101110101100101011101010101101101101111011011111110 1100101000101110101110101001110111011001011100111010011101010011101010011110110101011110101 101111010010101111010111100101011110101011010110001011100101011101011000101101010110110100101010010100100111101010101011100101010011100 100011111010010111000101010110101011110101111000101111101101101010111101011101010101010100111011001 111001011111 101010110010011010101110111111010011101001101010010100111101110101110101011011101110110100010010111110101011011101 10101001101011101111010110111111011100110110 101010011110101110110111000111010101010010101110100111010101111010100101 100011101101010111101101101 1100101110101011111010111010011010100100111010110010101010100 101100110010110111010101101111101010101101101011010101011101001110101011101011110010001101001110100110101101010100101111011010111001010101101101010100101010111100010 0100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 19
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, starno, to, fingal, in, his, he, from, they, that, on, with, own, thy, old, their, like, i, her, my, foina, corman, trunar, king, annir, lock, foe, bragal, pierced, deep, she, father, urlor, white, eyes, rolled, nor, son, rose, called, night