This is an analysis of Oina-Morul by James Macpherson.
After an address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar, Ossian proceeds to relate his own expedition to Fuärfed, an island of Scandinavia. Mal-orchol, king of Fuärfed, being hard pressed in war by Ton-thormod, chief of Sar-dronto (who had demanded in vain the daughter of Mal-orchol in marriage) Fingal sent Ossian to his aid. Ossian, on the day after his arrival, came to battle with Ton-thormod, and took him prisoner. Mal-orchol offers his daughter, Oina-morul, to Ossian; but he, discovering her passion for Ton-thormod, generously surrenders her to her lover, and brings about a reconciliation between the two kings.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X X X X a a X X X X X
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Metre: 101110010010010100100101101001011001010011010101011011110101101101001010011001010110001101011000101010011011110011010010101001011010001011101000010000101101010101001011 110100110101011101010111111110101111110101110101011000100010011111011011111011111101011010100100100101001001000110010111011101101100101010110010011101111001001011110111110100011101010010011111011111101101010111101010101010011011100111010101111011111011101 0111111111101100111010010010101110011111110110101010001011100101001010110111111011001010111010111101011101001011011011101010001010 111110110110110010110101110001010001011101111101111110110111111101111111010110110011 1000001010111101011011100101110001101011111111011101110110111110111100111101011011010101101011010100101010 1110101011010101100111010010011101011001101001010101110101010100100101111001010101101001001010110010110101010101111111001110101110101110111010110010011110101010111110101010101001 10100111010111101011101110100110111101001110110101011010101001 0011101110110111010110110101111101011111001001010101011101011111110111110110101110011101010111010111001011010101011001010101010010101111001010001011010110111110111110011101010 101001010011101111101010101101011111011011110100101000101101010110101001100101110111101111010 01011011101111101110010010011001011111011000101010101110101111110101111101001101001111100010101010 10010101101011100000101101001011110100011101 1101010010011111010110010111010011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, my, in, and, his, he, king, rfed, i, orchol, mal, fu, ossian, daughter, that, ton, thormod, had, lutha, from, came, for, sent, song, her, with, soul, comes, when, it, thy, on, not, feast, but, have, forgot, oina, morul, their, she, dark, race, night, why, mourn, soft, by