Crimora
That shield I bring, O Connal; butit did not defend my father. By thespear of Gauror he fell. Thou maystfall, O Connal!
About this text
Crimora is in the public domain. This text is taken from Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Project Gutenberg ebook #8161; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: James Macpherson, Crimora, in Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8161, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/macpherson-ossian/crimora-2.html, id L09641.
Form and metre
Crimora is 4 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 7.5 syllables.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| That shield I bring, O Connal; but | 8 | ········ |
| it did not defend my father. By the | 10 | ···˘/·/˘·· |
| spear of Gauror he fell. Thou mayst | 8 | ········ |
| fall, O Connal! | 4 | ···· |
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