This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary - Canto Sixth that begins with:

The second moon had now begun to wane,
Since bold Valdivia left the southern plain;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddbfXdgghhiijjjjjjkkccddhhkkllmmccddaanboojjjjbbaaeeddccjjaajjaaXnhbbfbmbmjjjjiiXdiiaajjoobpbpmmkkeeooaakkcciiqqddiirrhhbbiiddkkeeccmmjjjXccjjoooommccccccjjjjmjjjbbccrrjjeeqqhhjjkkbbcceerrccpp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 202,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111001 11010010101 1001010111 1100010111 01010011101 11011101001 0101010101 10010101010 1111011111 0101110001 00101011100 0101000101 11001011101 11110001010 11010101100 0101010101 0101110101 1100011001 11001110101 0101011101 11010010101 1011010101 1101010101 0100011101 11001010101 1001010111 0101010001 1111000101 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 11001010101 1001110111 1111010101 0101011101 01110010101 1001010100 0101011101 11001110101 11110010101 0101011101 01010001001 0101010001 01001110101 010010000101 1101010101 11010100101 1001010101 0111010111 1111010001 0101101101 1111010101 1101010001 1101010011 1011011111 1011010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 11101010101 1101010101 11001010111 0111111111 1111111101 1101011101 11110011111 0111110111 11011000101 1101100101 11001110101 11010011101 0101011111 1101000101 1101010 011101 10111010 110101 1111110111 0111010100 11110101 11011111 1001101011001 1100101101 0111101101 1001111101 1100111001 11010011100101 01010100101 1101011101 1110110110 0111111101 1001111101 1111101111 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101100101 001001101011 0010011001101 01010111 1111011111 00011111 11100111 1001011101 110010011101 1101111101 01001001101 0111111111 1011010101 10011010111 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1100011100 0101011101 1101010101 0101010111 01011100111 0101001101 1011110101 1001110101 0111010101 1101010001 00110010100 110010010101 1010010101 1111111101 0111110101 1111010101 1001010101 0101010101 0101010101 1011010101 100110010101 0101010101 1111011101 1100010101 1111010101 1101010111 1001110101 1011011001 10101010101 11011101001 1111010101 11010101001 0111010110 1111010101 11001110101 0101010101 0101111001 0101110101 1101011101 1101111111 1001011111 11010011101 1110001111 1001000101 0111010101 1111010101 01001000101 1111011101 0101111111 1111001101 0101110101 1100110101 1001010111 1111 110001 10010 10001 1111110111 1101010111 1101100101 1011010001 1011000101 1101110101 1101011101 1010010001 11010101111 1101001111 0101110101 1101011111 0100110101 11000101001 1101110011 1101001101 11010010101 11110111001 0111010101 110110110101 1101011101 1101101101 0110001111 11101110011 01011100001 1100011101 00010100111 1101110101 1101010111 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8726
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1553
  • Amount of lines: 202
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, her are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Missionary - Canto Sixth;
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  • history of its creation;
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