This is an analysis of the poem To The Bio-Bio (Al Biobío) that begins with:

Blest were he, O Bio-Bio!
Who could dwell forevermore...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX bcdc efgf ehXh bfef giji iheh fckc ccXc gfdf gXgX X XXXj XjXX XXXX XXXl XXXX XmXX Xglg jXjj XXXX XXXX XXXk XXXX XXXj XjXX XXXX XXmX XXXf jXXX XjXj ejhX XXXX njXX XaXX jXjX XXXX XXnX Xjnj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 1111000 00111110 0110101 10101110 11101011 10111010 0110111 10101010 0010101 11111010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1010111 01101110 1110011 00111010 1011101 00101010 1010111 10100010 1110001 11100111 1010101 10101010 0010001 10111010 1010101 10101110 1111001 11111010 1110111 10100100 1110101 10111110 1111101 110000010 0010101 10101010 1010111 10111010 1011110 110 110010 1011000100 111010 011000010 1010100 1111010 110011100 10100100 11111000 0100100 10010110 10101100 110011000 1111000100 10111111000 10001101 1010010 11101100 01111010 1100011000 110110110 11010010 111010100 1010110 1100110 1011010 10110011 10110100 1101110 10001101 1111110 11010110 10110010 10100100 111001000 101010100 10111001 10011100 1011100 011100100 10110100 1010110 11111100 1010101 100111000 10001100 1010100110 1100010 11101010 10101000 11010100 110001010 10011110 1110110 101010 10101000 111100100 111110100 10010101000 11110010 10110010 101011000 01010111 01101000 1011010 101111110 1101100 1010001001 10110110010 111011000 11011010 1111000 10110111100 101101110 11011010 10100010 1011101 01011010 110111101 0100111000 1011101000 11100100 1101000100 11111110 1101010 010000010 1100110 01010100 111101100 1010001 11110010 1100100 11100110 11010100100 111110 111100010 110011010 1111100 01101001110 1011100 101110100 100111000 110110010 10001010 11011010 11000010 111101010 1111000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; in, o, la, y, el are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words truth, verdad, la, y are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o, a are repeated).

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  • summary of To The Bio-Bio (Al Biobío);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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