This is an analysis of the poem El Leñador that begins with:

Un leñador derribaba
árboles sin precisión; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXX XXXXa BXXX XXXa XXX XX XXcXXbX BXXX XXdX XXXX aaXXX bXXaX a XdX X XX X XXX XX X X c XXd XXc XX eXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXXX bXf XX e XXfXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXaXXXX XXXXXXX aXXgXaXXXbXXXXXXXcXaX XgcXXhXXXXcXaXXXXbaXXX aa XchX XXX X X X Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,4,3,2,7,4,4,4,5,5,1,3,1,2,1,3,2,1,1,1,3,3,2,4,20,3,2,1,23,7,21,22,2,4,3,1,1,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000 101100 111100 110110110 11110 10010110 110111 100010100 1100100 10001100 10001000 11110100 11100100 100010010 1100100110 11010 11011011 101010 10101100 11101110 11010110 01100110 111000100 100011000 10100010 101011000 1011010 110010 1111000 10011011111 1100011100 1010111 110101010 1101100 1100100110 11010 11011011 101010 11001100 11001100 1011100111 11100100 100010010 1011010 1110011 1010100100 11011010 111110010 111100100 101011000 10110010 10110110 1101101100 110110 100110110 1010100 11011010 1100101100 1000101011 1100001 10110110 11000110110 10011010 11100100 101011010 011011 101101000 01101001000 11001100 110000000 11100100 1001101 110101100 1001101 1010101011 1011010000 110101100 101101 101011100 100001010 101101 10011100 11010100 10001111 111001100 1101110100 1000101 111101000 11110110 11011000 10110010 1001010000 11010100 1110100 111010110 110111100 0101010 11001010 110101100 10011100 101011000 11101100 100100100 11011100 10100110 1011001000 1011001 111110111 1100100 111011 101101100 11110 11101011 1110101000 1011111100 11111100 11101010 110111001000 111100 11100110100 10001010 1100101000 11011011 1101110100 100101000 1101110 10111010 10110100 1101110 1111011100 11100100 11010110 11011100 10011100 1011100 10101101000 10111010 11011100 101001100 101110 1100101010 101001010 101011100 0111001010 101000 101101010 101011 110011100 11000100 1011110 101011000 1110011 101011110 111001000 100001100 1010101010 100111100 10011011111 0101000 100100110 11011000 110101000 1101001 1100111110 11000100 0110110 10010111 10111100 1010101000 101111100 111111100 1110011110 1101100 111010 10110100 0110010 110100110 0111101 10100110 10000110 100110 11010010 11100100 101100111100 10011110 111010000 100010111110 01111011 1111000 110010100 100110100 110010100 011010100 1011010 1101000 1110001000 0110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 198
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, el, y, la are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word y at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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