This is an analysis of the poem La Huerfana En La Costura that begins with:
Era mi madre bonita,
Era mi única dicha,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A X B c c X X X X X X X X X X X X X aXBXXb a A X X X X X X X X X X X X X a X X A A X A X B X X X X X d a X X c X d A A X A X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 1011010 1011010 11010101100 11010010 1010100 1100100 110001 1110011 1011110 1110100 110100100 1010101 110111000 101010011 1110001000 10101000 11001 11110010 1011010 1011010 1101010 10100010 1110110 110111110 1110010010 010110100 101110100 10100100 111011011 01101000 10110100 11101 1110110 10001110 1100010 10101000 1010101000 1111011 100111010 1100100 10100100 111110110 1110010010 010110100 10111010 1011010 1011010 101011100 10100110 10111 111111100 1101100 110111 10011010 10110100 10101000 1001110 1001110 10010111 111110110 1110010010 010101100 10111010 1011010 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 62
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 25
- Average number of words per stanza: 5
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; era, mi, dime are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words era, estos, mamita are repeated.
The author used the same words era, estos, mamita 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 poet repeated the same word a at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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