This is an analysis of The Songs Of Selma by James Macpherson.
ARGUMENTAddress to the evening star:
An apostrophe to Fingal and his times. Minonasings before the king the song of the unfortunate Colma; and the bards exhibit other specimens of their poetical talents; according to an annual custom established by the monarchs of the ancient Caledonians.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X b X X b X X X X b a X X X X X c b X a X b c X X
- Stanza lengths: 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,
- Metre: 1000000101 101000101011000010101000100101010101010001100100100110010010101100101000 10010110110011110110101111110111111010010101110100010100110110101010101111010101100011110111111110101101011111101111101101010101 10101001101101011100011010010100101101001001010101110101111010100100101010101001111111010101110101100111101011111010101 100110010011111010111010111100001010010011110101101110101001100110010101011010101011010011010100110101011101101 1000111010110101010110100101101110110010110101 11001111001011111001111100101011110011001111111011010010101101101111010111011101010010101001110110010111100100111001101011110110010110011111011111110 1010111101100111101011110011100010111001101101111111001110101111010100101111011111101011101101000101111101 1110101111111110101111010111011011101110110011111111100111101101111110111011111010110111110111111010110111000110111111101111101011011111011001101001001011110011101001101110101100111100101101010111011001 1101111110011101110011011101111011011111011111011101001011111011011011111001110101101011001111111111111011110001010 1111100101010010110101101110110100111010010100111001010101010111100010111110101010111001010101111110111111111010101010101110101001101010111101010101010110010101010011101010010101010011101010110110011101010010101 100110111100101011010010100111010011101011101001111101111100111000100101011010110010110101011101101101011100110100110110101 0111110110111111110111110110101001111111001011111011111111101110 111110101101010010100010111101110101100011110110111011011011111001001011111101011101111111011011010010011101001101101 10011011010101011110111111110111011011010010001010101111100011001010100101010111011111001111001011011111100010010 11010010011010111110111110010011011001001111110110111010111010011011100111100101111101110010011110011111111110111111001001010100011111001110000110111111101101000100111111101101111011101111001010 010101110101010101001001110010011011010010010010110101011010101011001001110100111110001110101011011011010100110101111111010101010 11111011011011111111110010100101110010101011011101100010011011110111001111010110111010 01101001101011001011100010111110111111111001011011111011100010111001011011011111011101101011101011001111111110111111101110110011001011111011111011101011 1010101000101011101101101001110110110101101001100101110100100111000110110111010111011101101001111111011010100110111111001101110101001011011001011000111010111101011010100101001110 01110011001101000110010010101010101100111110100111110101111110111101001010111010011000101001011001101001111011010101011110011110010110101111101011011011110111101110101010110100001010010111001001110011111111 0110111110110011011001110101111110111010110011111011101011110101100101110101101010101001101101111100110110110110110101010110110111111010111101011010101110101101101101010001001011010111011101111101101101 100100100101101101001010101011001111101011101010010101011101111111111110101111101110011111101001111101111011111001011111101111110111111110110010101110101110111011011110101010110011101110101010010101 111001001010100100101001 1000101001110100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 26
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
of, thy, thou, dost, light, and, in, their, to, my, hill, on, from, with, i, voice, salgar, here, alone, colma, night, his, stream, around, when, her, rock, me, song, they, friends, speak, for, he, be, not, like, tears, o, brother, hear, soul, ye, why, but, love, ullin, no, dead, had, silent, as, thee, morar, hills, alpin, rain, wind, son, who, armin, more, awake, fair, hast, all, fell, carmor, daura, mist, field, at, father, it, heard, armar, sea, she, by, arindal, erath, came, bards, dark, shore, sunk, among