This is an analysis of the poem Manggagawa that begins with:
Bawat palo ng martilyo sa bakal mong pinapanday
alipatong nagtilamsik, alitaptap sa kadimlan; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110011011000 1000100010001100 110110111011000 101011101011000 1100111011001100 1100111011001100 110111011000100 11001101101001000 1110110011011010 111001010101100 1011011011011100 101011011111000 101011001001100 101011001011000 10101101010001110 1000111011001100 1001110110101010 1100111010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; sa, ang, mo, nang, ay, ng are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nang, kung are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Manggagawa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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