This is an analysis of the poem Gaita Galaica (Bagpipes Of Spain) that begins with:
Gaita galaica, que sabes cantar
lo que profundo y dulce nos es....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXXXXX b ccbb bcbb dadaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,1,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011010 111001111 1001011010 01100101011 10111010010 110100101 111101100 1010101101001 1001010010 1001010010 100101001 1001010010 10010010100 1001010010 1101 11011111 11010010001 11101011101 11111010101 1101011101 11011101101 10001001101 11111011101 0100101001 0100101001 0100101001 1010111001 0100101001 0100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; de, tiempo, sing, as, of, to, season are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tiempo, a are repeated.
The author used the same word bagpipes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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