This is an analysis of the poem Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale Vi that begins with:

The troops of ALMAGRO and ALPHONSO meet on the plain of CUZCO --. MANCO -CAPAC attacks them by nights--His army is defeated, and he is forced to fly... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aabbccdXeeccccffggccggddhhaahhiihhXbjjkkccccccggaahhiiddccllkkmmeenniikXcciikkddccooaahhkkbbbbccjX kkaaiiccbbooiijjiikkiiaaiijjlleeaaggccaa kkooiiiihhkkggcckkiiaabbiikkddbbXbccbbhhffiiXcbbeekkjjiibbmmggaXccccdXeeccbbccbbooaaXciiffccllccppkkeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,98,40,104,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010100101011010101010010110100010110101001001101010101000110100111101001011101010010010110100100101101011010010100101001010001000100100111010001010011010100010101010001011110101001000001001100100100100110101001100010 1110011001 1101111101 1001010101 0100111101 11010100110010 001010101001 11101010101 1111110110 11011100101 1011000101 1001110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 11011101110 01010101010 1111110101 1111011111 1100011101 0101110111 0101110111 0101110101 1111010101 0101010101 0111000101 11010100101 1101100101 1111010101 01010101001 1101000101 0101010101 1111010101 10111010101 11110011101 1111110010 0101110101 1111011101 0101110101 1011011101 01010100001 100111100101 1011010101 10111011111 1101111101 1101111101 1101011101 11001011101 0100010101 1101011101 0011000101 1011110101 0101010101 0101111101 0101011101 1111010101 01001110101 11011010101 1101010111 101110110101 101110100101 01001011101 0111011111 0111010111 1101111111 1111011101 1101110111 1101011111 1001011011 1111110111 1111111111 1101111101 1101011100100 1101010101 10011010101 01001010101 1011010001 0111010101 1101011101 11011010101 1011011001 11010100101 1101010101 11010101001 0101110101 10001000101 11010101001 1101110101 1110110111 11001110101 1101110101 1101110111 100011010101 1111011111 1111011111 1101011101 1111001101 1111110101 110101110100 01001011101 1001010111 10011110101 1111011101 1101011101 0101001101 11001010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101011101 0101111101 1101010001 11010000101 1101000111 1111010101 11010010101 0111010101 11001011101 0101010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111000101 11010010101 010100110101 1101000101 1101010001 1110010101 1101000101 1100111111 1001011001 1101011101 10001010101 1001010101 0101010111 1100100101 1001010101 0101010101 10010010101 11110010101 1101011111 11010101001 0101010101 0101010101 010010101001 1001010101 0011100101 1101010101 1100010101 11001010101 1011000101 01010101001 1001110101 01010001001 0101001101 01010010001 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1111000101 1101010101 1110010101 1110011101 01011010001 1101011111011 10010101001 1101010101 11010101001 1101001110 01001111101 0101011111 101101111101 1101010101 01010100101 01010101001 0101010101 01010101010 11011001010 100011010111 01011101001 10110111010 0011000101 0111010001 0100110101 1001010101 10111101001 1101010101 1101001001 11110111101001 0111011101 1101010101 1101010001 1100111101 0011010101 1101010101 11110100101 0111010101 1011110101 11010000101 110101010100 11110101011 10011110101 1110011101 1101010101 1111000101 1101110110 1101101101 1101010001 1100010101 0101000101 11001010101 1101010101 0101110101 1001010101 1101010001 01100111001 01010001001 1101010111 0101011101 11010010101 110100111010 0101011001 0101010111 0101010101 010100101010 11010101010 1101010101 11010110101 1101010101 10110001001 0101011111 1101110101 0111010101 01011111001 10111101001 10010000111 1001111101 1111110101 1101010001 110101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2934
  • Average number of words per stanza: 502
  • Amount of lines: 244
  • 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; of, in, his, almagro, and, with, her, their, to, my, not, she, has are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, a, that, when, and are repeated.

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