This is an analysis of the poem Batalha that begins with:
IN this still cloister where the roses grow
Waist-high between the arches and the well,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dXdXeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010101 1101010101 1111010001 1101111101 11110111010 1001000110 01010001010 110100 10010101010 1001110111 111101111110 10101010100 10111101010 1001111101 11111110010 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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- summary of Batalha;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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