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

Para conjurar el tedio
De este vivir tan maluco ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX bXXc XXdX XXXdXeeX XXXfXXXXX XXXg XXXb aXXX XXXX cXXX XXaX eXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX XXeX XXXX eXXe XeeX XXXX XXXX XXXX fXXh XXXX X XXiX XjjX XXXc XXhX XcXX gXXX XXXXXXeeX XXXX XXXX cXXX XibX XXaX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXaX XXXX XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,8,9,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,13,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100110 01101100 101101100 111110100 101000100 110100100 010011110 110101010 110011000 1011001 100110 1101100 10101010 11010110 11111010 110110 11010100 11111110 110110111 110101100 1101100 11010101100 1101100 101101 11111111 1100111 11011100 10001000 111011 10001100 01000110 10010010 1 10111011 1111000 1111101000 1101010 101111110 001001010 11010011 11101101111 1101011 10111000 1010110 11101001 11100110 110010100 11010000 11101100 10100100 10010000 1001110 111101100 11010010 10001000 1100011000 110010 11001100 111000100 1101010 11010000 101011 10110100 11110100 010101110 1001100 1111111 110100 110100 101111001 0111011 10111011 1111000100 110011100 10100110 100110 0110100 101101000 010010 11101011 10001100 111110 10010100 1110101000 110100 11101 110110 11101010 1111011 1011100 100100 11100100 101100 100100 111001100 10011100 1010100 111100101 110101000 111000100 111010010 111010110 10000110 101110010 11100010 0100101 1111111101 101111100 11100011 111001100 110001100 10101100 11010100 1 1110100 110010 111000101 1101100 101010100 1001101 1110011 111101010 1100010 111011000 1110100100 010110010 11100 110111000 10100001 10011100 11101000 10000110 0100010100 101100 10011010 1111001100 1001100 011110110 010010100 111100010 1011100 10001010 1 101011000 110100100 1101010101 101001100 1011010 10010110 11111000 1110101110 101101 110110100 10110100 1000110 11001110 010100110 101111000 1100100 111111000 110011 1110101 10101100 111000100 1001010 110001010 110010 111100 111001000 101101000 1100010 1011010 10111100 111101010 1000100 111001000 101000110 1011011000 11011000 11001000101 11100100 110100111 110011000 110001110 11100100 100001100 1011000 110100100 110101000 11110110100 10110100 101010100 1011110000 1010110 101011010 11010100 101001100 10100110 101000100 111101110 11011100 101001110 110001100 11001110 1000100100 1101010 111011010 1010100 1100011 11011101 10010000100 1100010100 100010100 11111100 11000011 11011100 111000101 10110110 11100100 1001100 11001110 10110101000 111100 11101000 110010 1111 1111000 111100010 110110000 1101100 1010001100 11001010 1011100 111010010 01010100 1110100 110010110 1101011 111011100 0101101100 101010001 010111 010110000 1 101100 10110000 11001000 010011000 10110000 100011100 0101001110 1111001100 1 101101010 10011000 100001000 11010000 1011101110 1111001000 10101000 0110100 1001011 011011100 1100100 11101011 1110110 11000100 11001000 101011100 1001100 1101000 100010100 1100110 101010010 1100000110 101100010 0111100 11101000 111101011 101101011 1110110010 100110010 01001100 10110110 011000100 111101100 101100110 011100010 100101100 1111001000 1010001001 10001010 11010011100 1011011010 11001010 11111111100 10111111110 1011001 10010100 111101100 1111100 10101 111001000 10110000 110100 101001100 1010101 111110 100111000 11011100 10110100 10001000 010100 01001100 1001101 100101 101010000 11011000 1110101100 1100001010 1101001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8816
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1523
  • Amount of lines: 398
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, o, que, el, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, nuestros, ya, , la are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, o, a, , an are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of El Bambuco;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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