This is an analysis of the poem Noche De Diciembre that begins with:

Noche como Èsta, y contemplada a solas
No la puede sufrir mi corazÛn: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab XCXX XaXX XXde XXXX XXXe fXdb XXXX XXXX XXgX XXXb XXXX XfXX XCXX XXXb XXXX XcXX XfXX hagX XhXX XXXa gXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111000010 11110110 11100100010100 1101000010 10101001110 101100010011 101010011000 1010011001 101101100010 1011001000110 1011101100 11100101010 110110001100 11010110 11011101010 11110101001 10100110110 1110010010 111011100100 11001110010 111001101001 11110011010 0110010011000 1010111101 110100001 11011010 111010001010 111100110010 11110110100 1010001010 1111011011110 110111110011 010100101100 11011010010 100101011000 100110110 11101010010 1111101010 10110100010 111100011010 1101100110 10110110 10010110110 01001100010 1011010111 1111001111011 111001010101 1001111011010011 1010001010100 1001000111 1111001111000 010110111010 10101001110 101100010011 101010011000 1010011001 11011001100 1110100001 110101000100 1100110010 111011001110 110101110 100100010010 01010110100 110010110110 1100100101 111010010100 11101100110 11001010001000 11001011101 1100110111 10010111000 11010001011110 11001100111 1011010110 110110010 101001001100 11011101100101 11000111010 10111110100 01001010010 10111010 1001001001110 101010101 101011001110 111001001100 1001100100 010001101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1672
  • Average number of words per stanza: 306
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; de, la, y, el, su are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lo is repeated.

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