This is an analysis of the poem Hombre Pequeñito that begins with:

Hombre pequeñito, hombre pequeñito,
suelta a tu canario que quiere volar...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010100 10011001110 11110010100 110 10111010100 1010011011 10100111100 11100 1001100101010 1110110100 101001110010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; hombre, peque, ito, me are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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