This is an analysis of the poem Don Pedrillo that begins with:
Not a lad in Saragossa
Nobler-featured, haughtier-tempered,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cXde fdbg aXeX aebX hXXi abdf cgji aklX laee bXkk XXkX dagj deXa kiXb bdgX XacX kaaX jXXX mjdf cmbX dXmX eigb fgkX jecX Xebe XegXXakjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000 10101010 101001011 10101100 10101010 10111010 11101010 10101010 10101010 00101010 00100110 11001011 10101110 011101000 10101010 10101010 10101110 11101010 10101010 10101100 10111010 11101110 10101100 10101010 10001010 10000010 10101010 10101010 10100010 101101010 00100111 100001010 10111011 10111110 11100010 00101100 1011010 11101010 01101010 10101010 10001010 11101100 100010010 10101010 10101110 11001110 111010010 10101010 10101010 10100010100 10111011 10101011 00111110 111100010 101011100 10111010 10101011 10111110 10111110 10001010 11100110 11001010 100100010 11111110 11101100 11111010 101100110 001000110 11110010 11101111 01111010 11011110 10101011 10111100 11101110 11101010 11111011 11101111 011011010 11101010 10111110 11101011 11111010 100111100 10101010 11111011 111010111 11101110 1001111 11101110 11001111 11011010 10111010 10101011 10101010 11111010 100101111 01111010 10111010 10101100 10111100 11101110 11110110 10110110 11111000 01111010 11101010 11101110 10101110 10101010 10101011 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, his, of, my, i, thus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, still, thus are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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