This is an analysis of the poem Animal Cansado that begins with:
Quiero un amor feroz de garra y diente
Que me asalte a traición a pleno día...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101101001011 11100100101 1110101001 1100011010 101101001011 1111010110 011100101000 1110110100 101101110110 11011110010 11010011000 1101001110 11100100100 11010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que is repeated.
The author used the same word quiero 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 literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.
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