This is an analysis of the poem Cisnes Brancos that begins with:

Ó cisnes brancos, cisnes brancos,
Porque viestes, se era tão tarde?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 110111001 111101110 110011001 10101000 10011010 10101000 11001010 1101010010 10101100 1011111010 1111101000 101101000 0100110110 10010100 011001110 100011010 10110100 111101110 01010100 10101010 1100110100 100111000 10100100 101011000 11011100110 100011101100 11110100010 101111010110 101001010 1111010100 1110101110 1011100010 110001110 11010011100 11001100 10100111100 10100110100 111010101100 11101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; o, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word cisnes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Cisnes Brancos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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