This is an analysis of the poem Ignez De Castro.From The Portuguese that begins with:

Far from her Royal lover, by Mondego’s sunny tide,
Does the Lady Inez wander, Don Pedro’s lovely bride;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee aacc bbff ccgg hhaa iiff hhdd ffcc iidd jjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10010101100101 10100110110101 011101010100101 1010011100010101 110101101100101 111001010110001 10010100110101 11111010111111 11011101110101 00010011110101 110011000101010 110101010101010 11100101010101 1101011101111 11011101011101 11101110110101 11010101010101 1101010101101 1011010110010101 100010010010001 01011101001010 11110000101010 1101010110101 00101010110001 1101010110001001 00101011110111 111010110010111 10101011010101 11100010110011 11001110011101 110101111010011 111111011111001 11111111010111 11110100011001 11010111011101 11000100110011 111010101110101 10010111110111 10101010110101 11011101110101 11111101111111 10101111111101 11001010111111 00111010110101 01110101011101 111011101100101 11110110111101 110100101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, she, i, see, ye, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words she, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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