This is an analysis of the poem El Castellano En Filipina that begins with:
Querido amigo: se trame lo que se trame
y se legisle y ore y se cante y se ame...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbc XXbX XXXX XXcX XXXX bdXd XXXX XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001111111111 111101111111111 1101000101011 111010001100110 1110011010010100 111011111000100 1101100101100010 111111001010110110 10111011101000 111111010100100100 11001101100110 1110111101101100 110101001110100 111101001010010 1101000111100 11101001111010 101010001001000 110110000101010 11000111011010010 10111011110110 1001010111100 101101010100 101001011101000 11101101000 11101111101010 10101100111011 11011101001100 1100101011010 111010001111000 11001101101000 11110010011011000 101111110001100 110100110010 11010010000100 11010110111011 10110101100111 101101011001000 101001010110 101001110011000 11100011111000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; se, y, el, su, en, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c, cuando are repeated.
The author used the same word es at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of El Castellano En Filipina;
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