This is an analysis of the poem La Vida that begins with:
¿Quién al recuerdo de la infancia tierna
Un ¡ay! profundo que a su pesar no exhala?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX bXXX X XXX aXXX XXXX XXaX XXaX XXXX bXcX XXXa XXXX X XXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXa XXXX XaXX X XXXX XdXX XaXX XXXX XaXb XaaX dXXX XXXe XaXX X XXbe aX Xc aeaX XXXX XXXX adXd XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000110010 111001011101100 1111011110010 011001001000 11111001001010 1111001011100 1101100110100 01101111110010 111100011110010 11100110100 111001010110 11001001000 11111011011010 110010001000 100011101000 1010011101000 111011010100 111110111100 1110011100 11100110100 110010101010 100111001000 1100110110 11010111000 10100100110 10001011100 10011101000 110010110 11011111000 100011110111110 110010010110 1110001000 1101011000 1101100110 11101110101100 1101010101100 0111111010000 110011100110 1001011101100 01100100010 110101000110 110100011100 101101011 1011010011100 100111000111000 101010101111100 111010010111 110101101010 111010001100 11101110100 111000100010 110101101100 1110001111110 101010100010 110001110100 10010011110100 110111010 01010101010 01010001110 11100101001110 01101001010 0100100011000 101010111010 110010111000 11100100110 110110110100 10101011110 1101010100100 101011000 11010101100 100100110100 11001111000110 101011100 111100101011110 11010011000 11010011001 1010100110 11000011010 101101010101 1100101100 1 11010101 11100100 11010100 1100001 100111100 011110 111110 1100110000 10010011 10000010 101111000 1101100 11110100 100100 1110100 11111111 1111100 0110011010 111000100 1011001110 10110 100011010 10101010 0111100 1110110 111000110 111100 11010110 11001100 01101000 11101000 10010011 11110100 111110 11011110 111010100 1 111100101000110 011011010 11111000010 1010001100011 11000110010 1011011101 1101001101000 1101010001 10011000101010 1001101101 1110100001010 1100101100 100111010000 1101001110100 1110111101000 11111100100 11111100100 1100101101 0100101011100 011000100001 111100110010 011010011110 11001110010 11000010010 110100101000100 11011111 101100111010 11111110010 1010011001010 11010010101 11100110010 11011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, n, el, la, y, una, son, de, mi, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words el, y, son, de, salve, en are repeated.
The author used the same words qui, a, par, viv, d at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase aqu connects the lines.
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- summary of La Vida;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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