This is an analysis of the poem A La Orilla Del Rio that begins with:
Ya que quieres saber, amiga mía,
Lo que hago en esta hacienda,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXbXXXXcXdecXeXXXbXXXXXXXcXXXcXXXXXXXdcXedXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 11101101010 110111111 1011010010 11100100010 10110001100 110010 1000010010110 1010010001100 10000110100 10111010010100 1001000 1110100010 10110101100 111001100010 1011110001 101000010 100111110110 1100100011 110001101100 10101111000 110100 11001101110 10111101000 111010110 11101001100 10001100 110111010 11101011100 11101100010011011110100 1100010 1101111011001 0111101101000 11101100110 111001110110010 0101001 111000110110 10111101010 11111110001 11001001110 1110100 11110110111100 10000100010 10101110010 1100101100 110001 10110011110010 101000101000 110000100010 100111000 1001100 110110110001 111101000100 1110111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1798
- Average number of words per stanza: 318
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, de, la, y, el are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words del, oh are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, o are repeated).
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