This is an analysis of the poem Por Ella Han De Llorar Los Cinamomos... that begins with:

Por ella han de llorar los cinamomos,
Mustias las flores, cuando muera el día....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XaX
  • 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: 110101011000 1011111101011 10110110 10100111110 1111001101010 11101111011 11011001010 110010101110 110101111000 11101011101000 1010110010 1100101100 111001110 100111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; los, de are repeated.

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

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

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