This is an analysis of the poem Si Teta that begins with:

Sa isáng tahanang lubhang marálita
na áalang̃án pa sa pang̃alang dampa'y...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaaXXXXXXXbcXXdXXXXXXdXXXbcXcXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 107,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010100 11011100100 11101110 110011101000 11001011110 111111011 111010101 11001011111 1101001110 111001110 1100100101 1101011010 11110011000 110001011 111011100 1100111010 11 1100011110 1100110100 11101011010 11000011110 11111001 11011011010 1100111 11001001110 111011001 11001101 1100101100 1011011000 0110010100 1110110110 101000110000 11011010001 1011011011 110101111 11011101000 11000011011 10110101100 101011100 11001011001 11100011010 11101010000 101101100 1010101100 110000110010 11010010100 11110110010 1110001010 11100110001 11 1011001111 1110001101 10100011010 1011011010 101001111 1110011100 1010110100 111011010 11011011110 1100100111000 1101110010 110000110010 10110110 11010011001 1111010 11000101001 111111100 11011110110 1011000101000 110100101000 1110011101 11010010100 1110101010 11100100100 101111100100 111111011 11100101010 1101010101000 111000101010 11100101110 101001110 11101101100 11 1101100100 1101011011 1010101010 1101101100 110110100000 111101111 111011100 1101010100110 1110110100 1010010110 1110101000 1101011000 10001010100 111011101000 110101110110 10110110100 1001111010 11010011100 01101110100 10110101000 1001011010 1000001111 11110110110 111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3818
  • Average number of words per stanza: 803
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ng, na, n, sa, ang, siya, walang, t are repeated.

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

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

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