This is an analysis of the poem Rosas (Traducido Por Anderson Braga Horta) that begins with:

Rosas que ya vos fuisteis, deshojadas
Por manos que también se fueron, rosas...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX 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: 10111101000 110110111010 1011011111100 1010100100 1010110011000 10100101000 101001001000 1100101000 10101111011000 101001010100 10100101000 11011110100 1100101000 1111110011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; que, rosas are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word rosas at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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