This is an analysis of the poem A Virginia that begins with:

Te he vuelto a ver, mas no como algún día
El recinto llenado de un salón ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XbXX XXX X XbXX XXXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001111011 1100100011 11101000100 1100011001 10011111000 1010011001 10111001000 010101110010 100011011 1001011010 10110011010 1100011011 11100101100 1100100010 111001101100 110111001000 1110101100 111010110010 110011001000 1011011010 111010011000 1111011010 1100110010000 11100110101 1110110110 1111000111 10111100100 111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, 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.

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  • summary of A Virginia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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