This is an analysis of the poem Epístola A Los Transeúntes that begins with:

REANUDO mi día de conejo
mi noche de elefante en descanso....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXXXXXX XXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,3,10,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110100 11000101100 110110 111111000110010 1111010 11101001010 11110 11111010110 1111001000 111000100 11011001010 10110001110111010 1110011010110 1010110 01011010 10100111100 11101110011101101100 11110010011011001101110 1101001110111000 111011101000 111101101010011101 110011111010 111110101101000 1101000100 100110 100101011010011 11011100010110000100 10001101000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mi, en, que, cosa are repeated.

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  • summary of Epístola A Los Transeúntes;
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