This is an analysis of the poem Peruvian Tales: Aciloe, Tale V that begins with:

Character of ZAMOR , a bard--His passion for ACILOE , daughter of the Cazique who rules the valley--The Peruvian tribe prepare to defend... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aabbccdeXcbbffggbbccddhhXc ccXiaaaaccjjkkllbbeehhjjccmmhXaaaXmmhhaaeeffeellnnooppiXeXqqbbffiioobbXihXoodecc ccrrXehXbbXaooeXnnccaaeeccaajjnnbbjjccbb aajjccccbbjXbbiiffnX aaoXeXjjeejjjjeXaaffXbkkooeeaaaaoonXcchhccggaaiXffeenXoobXXcbbccaaeeaaXioojjeecchX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,26,80,40,20,116,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1000100101011010001011010001001010010101000100110100100101001100010110000100100110000101001001011001110100010101001010011110001111101010110001010111010011010100100010101000100100101 0011010101 1101010101 11001010101 100100101001 1101010111 1101011101 11010101010 1101100101 1001011101 1101010101 1101010101 11010111010 1101010111 1101010101 0101000101 01110010101 1111010101 1101010101 11100011101 0101010101 10110101010 10011100010 0110011111 1111011111 1001001110 1110010101 11110100101 0111010101 0101110110 0101010001 01011001001 1101010101 0101010111 11001010101 1101010101 1111011111 1001010101 11100010101 11010010101 1011110101 1001010011 0100010101 01010010101 0101010101 1001011111 01010101001 1101010001 0101010101 1111010101 1101110001 1111110001 0101010101 1001111010101 1111011101 11001110101 111101110100 101010010101 10101111101 1111100101 11110101010 1111110101 1101110101 1111110101 1011000101 1111011101 0101110101 01110110101 1111010101 11001010101 1101010001 11110010101 1110010101 1101011101 1101010101 11010011101 0101010111 110111010101 1100110101 1001011101 1111111101 1101010111 0101110110 11110101111 01010101110 10110011101 0101010101 1101011101 01010101010 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1010111010111 01010100101 0111011111 1101010101 1101001110 0111011111 1111110101 110100010100 1101011101 0101010101 10010111010 1101010001 1111010101 0101111001 1001010101 0101010101 1101000101 1101111001 11110111010 1111011111 1101011101 110101110100 101010011000101 10101111101 1111001001010 0101011101 1001111101 1001111101 1101111011 111101110100 10100111011101 01111100101 110111011 0101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1100110101 100011111101 1101111101 1110000101 011010101 1011000101 1101110101 1101010111 11010100101 0101111101 01010111010 10110101010 1001010101 1111010101 11010010101 1111010101 10111001101 1111011101 1111110101 1100110101 1110011001 1111111101 1011111101 1111110111 0111011101 1001011101 1111010101 111010101 1111010101 010101101010 1111010101 1101010111 111011110101 1101010101 11101010101 11011100101 1101010101 1011010110 10101001110101 1101110101 1101111001 11111111010 1000011010001 1001111110 0101111101 0111111101 1101111001 01010111001 1111010111 01110011111 1101111101 1101110001 01010111111 10010111110 1111000101 0100010101 1011101110111 0101010011 0101011101 111011110101 1101110101 0101110101 110010100101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010001 10111000111 0101110101 0101110101 0101110101 0101011111 1111010110 1111110101 11010011001 1111010101 0101010101 1111010111 11011100101 1101111111 111111111 11001010111 1101011101 1101111101 111100110100 101110010101 10101011111011 10011100111 1101010101 1111011111 110010111010 10001011010001 1101000101 1111010101 11111111010 101111110110 01010101001 0101010101 1101110101 1111011101 0111010101 0101010101 011010101 10011100101 1101010101 010011111101 1111010101 1111010010 1001110001 11010111001 1111000101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101011101 1011110101 1101011101 110101010100 1111010101 11010110001 101100101 1101011101 0111010111 1101011101 1001111010011 10101111101 110101101 1101010101 1001000101 1111010101 1111010101 111101011000 01101010101 0101111101 111101101101 11010111111 1101101101 0101000111 110101001001 11001111111 1101010111 0011000101 11001010101 1010100101 11001010101 1101010101 1001010101 1001010101 01001010101 0101110101 1111010001 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 394
  • Amount of lines: 284
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, zamor, in, of, father, and, aciloe, her, my, she, thy, his, for, that, by, where, go are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, she, the, to, my, that, by, go are repeated.

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  • summary of Peruvian Tales: Aciloe, Tale V;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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