This is an analysis of the poem Cantiga De Santa Maria, No. 100 that begins with:

Portugease
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X AaaX XXXXXXXXA aXXXaXXaA XXXXaXaXA X bbbb cccXbdbbD XeeebbbbDXeeeebbbbD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,9,9,9,1,4,9,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 10010 10110 10110 101111 1111100 110101100 1000110100 11111100 1100 1110 1010 111100 10010 100110010 11110100 011111000 111110100 11010 1000 1010 1111100 10010 11111110 11110100 11111110 10111110 110110 11110 11010 111100 10010 10 101010 010011 101111 10111110 111111110 11001001110 11101110 1111101 10111 11110 110010 1011011 110 110101100 10101110 010101010 110111010 111011 11011 111011 111110010 110 11111010 10101010 111111010 110101010 1111100 1111011 1111011 1111011 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • 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; to, thee are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same words maria, mary at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Cantiga De Santa Maria, No. 100;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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