This is an analysis of the poem ¡gumigiliw! that begins with:

At ng̃ makatapos, iná'y pinagyama't
saka iniupo sa sadyang luklukan...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 132,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000101000 10100110100 11010101010 1100011010 110010110100 110111010 101111010 11100010100 1001111010 111000100110 1101011100 10100110100 1011111010 10001100110 1110101001 1101011001 11010110110 1001010100 111001101000 111011000 11 11011011010 11011011010 1010101110 11000011100 110011100100 111100100 10100010110 10100011110 10110111000 1101001100100 1101110010 1001010100 11001011010 110101111 101101100 1100010100 11010110100 110110101000 11011011100 1101001100 1001111110 11110011000 10110011010 110010100110 1110010001 1110011000 1100001100100 11010110100 1111010110 111100110100 11100110100 1101010100 11 11011011000 110000110010 110010110 1100111010 110011110 1111110010 110110100 1100111010 10110011100 1111100110 111000101000 1100011010 10110110100 1011001010000 1001110000 11000011110 101100110110 11100110110 1011011110 1101100110 1011010100 1101011000 1011001100 11011011000 1001110100 11000101000 1101111010 11010110100 100101100100 1111101100 10111111 11001011100100 11 110110110000 1110110000 1110001101 11100110010 101100101100 110000110110 11101100100 110000110100 10011110110 1110100110100 11000011100 11100011100 101111010 11100011110 101000100000 11110110100 110011100 1011000101100 10110110000 111110110110 10011010100 11101100 11011011010 111011010 1110110000 100010000 1011010010 11100010100 11010011000 110110110000 10101010100 1101101111 11 1011010100 111101010 110110110100 100110100 1101011000 11000011001 110110100110 1000110100 100110111010 11010011110 1010011100100 1100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4767
  • Average number of words per stanza: 931
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ng, ang, n, ko, na, kung, ay, sa, 'y are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words na, an, at, patawad are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, s are repeated).

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  • summary of ¡gumigiliw!;
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  • history of its creation;
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