This is an analysis of the poem ¿por Qué No Canto? that begins with:
¿Por qué no canto? ¿has visto a la paloma
Que cuando asoma en el oriente el sol ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX Xc XXXXX XXXXX XcXXX XXXXX XXaaX XdXXb XcXXX XXXXX XdXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001010 110100111011 110100110100 101010 11010011110 111110101111100 1101010110 1100011000 101000 111101101110 101001110100 1010001000110 11000101000 10100 1110100100 101100110100 1010011010 10000010100 110000 10101101010 10101010100 10100011010 1110111110 1110 10101101000 111001000100 110011010 11100110010 1010 1111011000 10011101000 110110010101 11110111010 10110 11101011111 11011111101 11010111010 1101101100 101000 11101100111000 11101101100 1101011001 10110100110 110110 101101011 1010101000110 11100110 101010111100 11110 1001101110 11101011100110 01000010011 111010100010 11100 10101001110 11110111100 1100011001 1101010110 10100 11111110 10110110100 11000101000 101110110011 1101000 111000110 101101011100 111001001 11101110100 11110 11100011 1110101101100 110101001110 110001111100 111101011001 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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; en, la, flor, cantar, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words y, cuando 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 words n, cantar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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