This is an analysis of the poem El Crimen Fue En Granada that begins with:

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Se le vio, caminando entre fusiles, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXaXXbXbaXXb X X bXXXaXXXabXXXXXXX X XXbXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,1,17,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101100010100 110110 101101 11100011000 10000010 10111000 1100100 1110110 10100110 100110110 1010010 1111110111110 111010110 101010111010 1 110111 110110011110 11001110 11111111100 11111011110 1000010 1000011101000 1101110100 10011011010 1111001101110 01100011010 110111110 1101110 11001110100 1101011100 1101001011 11100010 1101000101100 1 1101100 10011 0101111010 110110 1101111110 1100010 11011010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; en, granada, yunque, el, que are repeated.

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