This is an analysis of the poem The Last Battle Of The Cid that begins with:
Low he lay upon his dying couch, the knight without a stain,
The unconquered Cid Campeadór, the bright breast-plate of Spain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX bbXc ddee ccaa ccbb eeff fgbb eXhhiijj fg jj ccee bbcc eecc bbee Xeee Xaii fgkk eeaa ccll ccbb ffaa aajjXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101010101 01000110011101 0010100100101101 101010100010010 111110101110111 101010101010001 111111100010101 0111101011100001 1010100111010001 111111100010101 10110101010101 101010101010101 101011101011101 111010111010101 101011101110001 10101110111101 1010100101010101 111010101110101 101010101010111 101110001010001 101010101010111 111010111010101 11101011010111 111010001011101 111110101011111 101110101110100 111100101010101 101111101010001 101010101110101 111001010101010 111010100011111 111010111010101 011010101010101 101010101011101 111000101110001 1010010101000101 101010101111111 101010100100100 10100111010101 101010101110101 100001000110001 101010100101111 101010100110101 101010111110101 001111101010101 101001100010001 101010101010101 101001101010101 001110101110111 0110101110101 01101100110101 1110101010100101 111010101010101 1001010100011101 101010101110101 11010101001001 1011110011101010 1010101000101001 1011111001110001 011001000110101 100011111010100 011011101111001 110010101010111 011010101010101 0010111001101001 111110101011100 1111001010010101 101011101010001 111010101110111 101010100010101 101110100010101 1010001010100001 101010100011101 1010011001010111 101010101010111 1010110010001 10101101010101 101010101011001 111000101010111 111010101010101 111110101110101 101110101110001 101110100110101 1010100101110101 111010111010101 1111101010111001 101110101010101 01100101011101 101000101011111 101110100001001 101010101010001 101010110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and, his, thou, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, lo, he, each are repeated.
The author used the same words santiago, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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