This is an analysis of the poem Caracol (A Shell) that begins with:
En la playa he encontrado un caracol de oro
macizo y recamado de las perlas más finas;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XbXa XXX XXX c cdXdcebebbcffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110110001100010 10011000011110110 0100111001110100 10111110110110 110001101100100 111000110011110010 01000110111110010 11100111111100010 1111100110100 11110010101110 101001101101 11011001011100100 111001011100010 110011010110 01 1101010101 1010010101 0101000101 11010010111 1100110101 1101011001 1100110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010101011 1011111111 01111001001 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, y, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word y is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shell is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words n, shell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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