This is an analysis of the poem Paghabág Ng~ Puhunan that begins with:

Matapos na silá'y makapag-upuan
sa papag na siráng ang paá ay kulang,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010010 1101111110 1011010100 110110110100 10111110 1111010100 101100101010 11011010 1111011100 11011101100 1010011110 11010011010 111111110 11010011100 11010011000 10010011100 101100100000 111000110000 11100011110 1100011100 11 111011011 1110111000 10110011100 1100100110100 100111000 111011000 110011101000 10101110110 1101101000 1110110100 11000100100 1101110011 10011101100 11110110110 10100011001 1100111011 11110100 110000110000 1101111011 11010110100 11110111000 1100011000 10010011110 11101110110 10011010100 10100011010 10110010110 1100101100 110101110 110111110 101100110100 11001101010 11 10000110100 10000011010 11001010000 101111100 110100110110 1100110110 110011100 10111001111 110100110000 110001101 10110011001 1101011110 101111010 110010110100 1110010101 1001110110 110011100100 10001110010 11100101100 10100101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2639
  • Average number of words per stanza: 524
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • 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, na, ang, sa, n, ay are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Paghabág Ng~ Puhunan;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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