This is an analysis of the poem La Violencia De Las Horas that begins with:

Todos han muerto.
Murió doña Antonia, la ronca,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab bXXXXX aXXc aXXXXX XXXXX XXXd XXXX cXXXXbX XXXXdbX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,4,6,5,4,4,7,7,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 1010100110 11011001110 101101010 011001000 110111110 10000010 10000 101110110 1010010100 1001001100010 1101010 011010111 1011010 1101010 1100100 11010111000 1010001100100 1100010 10101010 1111100 1010110110 10010110 11000001100 1010 11001100 10001100 011111 1010 1101110111100 011100101 1111111000 101110111 1111100 111001110100 111001110 10100 1110010 011000 101101 1011100 1100111 1001001000 010100001110 11110001100 10100111111 1011000110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; la, de, mi, en are repeated.

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

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  • summary of La Violencia De Las Horas;
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