This is an analysis of the poem From The Spanish Cancioneros that begins with:

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Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXdXdaeea XaeE affaaXE XeeggeE XhaHAhiihhaHAciichaHA Xjccjjggkkg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,4,7,7,21,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11101110 11101110 11101110 111110010 00101010 11101010 10011110 00101010 11111111 10001111 11101111 10111011 1 1111 1101 1111 0101 0111 1101 1111 1111 11000 1111 01000 0111 1101 1101 1111 1101 1111 1 11111010 1011100 10101010 1110101 11101010 0110011 1111101 10111110 10111010 1011100 10101010 1110101 10111110 1110101 1011101 10101010 11011010 1011100 10101010 1110101 1 1010111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010111 1110101 0100101 1011100 0010111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • 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; so is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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