This is an analysis of the poem Cantares that begins with:
Todo pasa y todo queda,
pero lo nuestro es pasar, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXXcX XXXX b XcdX dXXX da XXXDX X XXXDX X XXXDX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,1,4,4,2,5,1,5,1,5,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 10110110 10100100 100111 101001100 11011100 0110110 110110100 100111 101001 1101010 0111010 101101010 100110 101001100 1001110 10101101 10011010 111010110 110111010 11101101 111110110 1111010010 10011010 10100111 11101110 1111011100100 11111011010 10011010 111010110 10110010 1011010110 01110011100 110001010 10011010 111010110 10110010 1011001110 10110111000 100101110 10011010 111010110 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; camino, cuando are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words se, cuando are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases pasar, caminos connect the lines.
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- summary of Cantares;
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