This is an analysis of the poem Inventario Galante that begins with:

Tus ojos me recuerdan
las noches de verano, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXBXXcXbBXabXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXbaXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100 111100100 1010110 01011100 11100100 11010110 1101100 111100100 110101 1101000 11100010 0110010 110011011 1011010 1011010 1011010 110011010 1110100 11101101 111010 1111110010 1110110 110011010 1110100 0101010 011010 0110010 1010110 1100101 01010110 1010100 01011100 101011 1001110 0110010 1010110 10110100 100110 0100010 0110010 1110011 100010 110110 0110010 110110 1001100 10110100 11110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 208
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; los, como, de, tu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words como, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Inventario Galante;
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  • history of its creation;
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