This is an analysis of the poem Dona Panfaga O El Sanalotodo that begins with:

Seg˙n dÌceres p˙blicos doÒa P·nfaga hall·base hidrÛpica
O pudiera ser vÌctima de apoplÈtico golpe fatal; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Xb XXXXXX XXXcXXcXX XbXX Xa XX XXXX XXXX XdXXXXXa XX XdXXXXXeXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXc XaXa XXXX XaXa XXXXXdedXXXcXXX XXXX XXXXX XcXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,2,6,9,4,2,2,4,4,8,2,10,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,15,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010100 110011001000110 11100010010111001000 1001001110010110 110110011000100100 10010110011110 1010100110010010 101101111010 101011011101001100 110011101000101010 1010001110101100 11100110100100 1010100110010101000 1101111111100 11000101101101000 1010110101001101010 1100100011001001000 0100010100011010 1011000101010100 101011011110110110 100010001000010110 1010010010001010 11001011001101000 110011010001110110 11001001000100110 1110100010001010 11111011001101100 0101010110011010 11111010101001010 0101100110011010 111110111101100010 10110011010011011 1 10001111011011000 111001101111010011 110101110110100001 110010101100100100 11001101010101010 101100110100011110 1010000101010100110 111010010010110101 1000010010000101100 11100100101000111010 10001111100110110 10110101111010111 10000000110100110 1110010010110110100 110010111010101100 111111101010110010 10011001101011110 110100001110100011 101100101010001101100 1101001011111100011 1000001011011001100 110101110110 0111010101101100100 101000101010010 110110011010110100 10101101101000 1010010110011100100100 11101000100010010 1000101000100100 111100101001010 10000011010111100 11001101101111001 110100100010010 101100010011001010100 10001010101000000 1110011011011010010 1101100010011001001 11010001001110011 100001001110000100 10101001110001100 0110101010010110 11010111001110110010 110110001101100110 11101010101001 100010100010100 1010000100010000 1001101100110100 1001000100101100 100010101100100 100100101001010 100101010110100 101001001010010010 10010010110100 01010001001100100 10011001100110100 1001001001010100 110100110010010 111001010100110 1110001001101010 100010010101010 11110011100 1011011011001001000 1010001011101010 11001001000100000 100100111101010 101011000100101110 11111001110010111 0110011011100111010 10100101101100010 111100111110010 101001010111111 1001011010110010110 1011110011010010 10110101000101001 110100001100101 100010110001100100 11100100100010010 1101000110011010 1101101110111100 1111001001111110110 110110 111100011 110100011001100101 1010110111 1001010000001011 1110011101010100 10001001001110010 1101001100101000 1011011001 11001111100101100 10111011110111101000 110011111100110 1111011110111011100 10010100110 1010111001111111100 10110111011100111000 1100 110011101110101100 1010011010101010100110 10110001010100100 11010101100111100100 1001001010100100 10100010110100010 1010110111011001100 1101100001100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7941
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1533
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', y, que, s, c, qu, el, mi, de, nica, cula, tico, n, l, en, me, la are repeated.

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

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