This is an analysis of the poem Cantiga De Santa Maria, No. 181 that begins with:

Pero que seja a gente
d'outra lei [e] descreuda, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXXbXcX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXcXcXXX XXXXXXdX eXcXXXXX XXaXXXcX cfXXXXXX g fhiX ajkgjhlb akgeXdf mfdgeba nlhmmede keXdadf embedmn henhkXb fifmXkmj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,4,8,7,7,8,7,7,7,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001 1011100 11010110 01010100 1001010 1010100 1100100 11011100 0111101 1011000 10110100 11110100 1000111 11011100 1011100 11101100 1011110 110100 11001000 1101110 1101010 11011100 1110110 10110100 11010100 11110010 11110 111100 1011100 1010110 11010110 0101010 11010010 1111110 1110110 1110100 101110 1101100 10101100 1111100 11110100 1001100 1101110 1110110 1101101 10101100 11011010 101011100 11101100 11110100 1101101 1011100 1110100 11010100 11110100 10110100 10110110 11101100 11001100 11010 11010010 10001011 10110110 0101100 11011010 1010110 110111 01010100 10 010011 1110 1111000101 11000 010010 010100100 101001 00100101 1011100 101111010 111010100101 1101011011 00100100 111001 110101101 1010110101 0110110 0101 101100110 1101010010 11111101 1111 1110101 0101011 00100010 10010 111110111 00101 1010010 00101010 1010010 101111101 010011 11111010 1011011 01010101011 0010001 11101 11111010011 101001011 1011101 1010110101101 1101010010 101010 10101111 11011 10100110 10111 1110101010 111111 11111 1110010 101010 110011 101111 11010101 111000101 0011100 1111010 1011 11010 0111010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, dos, e, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.

    The author used the same words e, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ajuda at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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