This is an analysis of the poem Peruvian Tales: Zilia, Tale Iii that begins with:

PIZARRO takes possession of Cuzco--The fanaticism of VALVERDA , a
Spanish priest--Its dreadful effects--A Peruvian priest put to the tor-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbc bXddeebb ffggeeggbXhhaaggiijjbbbbffbbkkaabbffllfXbbmmXgaaeeXneXccddnneebXeebbiXffaaggggccllmmbbeeaallffiiffffXoggbbeXbbaaeXkk bbiifXaaoobbiijjeeaaiXggbbjXeeiibbaaaaggcciXbbffjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,116,50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010101001000101001000 101010010010011001 101001101011111001 101010110010101110 100100010001 1101010101 11010101010 01010010101 1101100101 1111010101 0101010111 10111101010 01010101010 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 110010101101 1101010101 1111011011 0101010101 11011100101 0101010101 11010111010 01010101010 11010111010 0101010011 0101010101 011000110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 11011001001 0101010101 1101010101 010111101 1101110101 1001100101 1011010101 10010111001 1101010111 1100100101 1111010101 11010101001 1001011101 1101010101 1101011111 01010100101 1101010101 1111010101 1001010101 10011010111 010111111000 11010101001 10110110101 11111000111 1001011001 100110111010 01011010001 01110101001 1011010101 1101110101 0111001101 1101110110 0100111101 1101011101 11010111010 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101000101 1101100101 1101010001 1101010101 01010001001 1101010101 10010101010 1101010101 11100100101 1010010110100 1101110111 1001011101 0101101011100 1101010111 110110101 1101010101 01110100101 1101000101 0100110101 0101011101 01011001101 0101010101 0101000101 11111111001 110101110001 1101010101 0100011101 1101111101 1101111101 01001010111 111101110101 1111010101 0111010101 1011010101 1001010101 1010101110101 1111110101 1100010101 0101110111 0111011101 1101110101 01010110101 0111010101 0101110101 10010110101 0100110101 0100110101 1111010101 11011001101 1010010011 10011101010 0101110101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 111101000101 0101011110 1110010101 0111010011 1101010101 111101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011000111101 010101011000 1001010101 11110101001 1001010101 1101010101 1101100101 1101110101 1101010111 011000101 1101010101 1101010101 0011111101111 1101010001 1111111101 1111010101 0101011111 010111110110100 1111010101 1101000101 100001010111101 10001010101 1111010101 110111001010 1011101110101 1001011101 1101000101 1111110101 1011011101 1001010101 1111010101 1101111101 1111010111 01001110101 1111010111 1111011101 1001011101 0101111101 111101110101 011101010100 1101010101 111101010101 1100001101 110101011101 1101010101 110101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2063
  • Average number of words per stanza: 349
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, her, thy, whose, his, my, in, they, to, yet, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, whose, while, the, his, witness, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Peruvian Tales: Zilia, Tale Iii;
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