This is an analysis of the poem Kamay Ng Birhen that begins with:
Mapuputing kamay, malasutla't lambot,
kung hinahawi mo itong aking buhok, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010100010 110001101010 11011010011 110001110110 110100110000 110100100110 110001110010 101100100011 10110110110 11011010011 100010110110 10110100110 1011010010 110000110110 1001000110110 111010110000 110110110110 11000110100 1011001100100 11000110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sa, may, ang, ay are repeated.
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- summary of Kamay Ng Birhen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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