This is an analysis of the poem Himno A Los Voluntarios De La República that begins with:

Voluntario de España, miliciano
de huesos fidedignos, cuando marcha a morir tu corazón,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXaXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXaXaXaXXXbaXabXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXbXXaXXXXXXXXXXXaXa XXXXbXXXX XXbXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXaXa XXXXXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,10,4,4,24,5,23,9,15,5,21,14,13,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000101000 01010001010010110 1010010111100 101110000 11011010100100 1010010010010 0110110111110 110100 101101001010 1100111100 100110101001001000 11111111011001110 10011000110 10101101100 11011101101101 11101101 11 100011110110 11101011011010100 101110001010 110110100 1110101001 110101101001000 11110110100110 1101011101000 11011001110 111011011101001010 11000010100 11110001101000 10001001110 111100110010 100110011001000 001011001000 001001011000010 1110011111000 1110100101001000 1111001001001000110 101111101110 11010001001000100 1101001001001110 10000 0101010001010 010110011100110010 100101001101011010 101101011011100 100001000101100101010 011101101001000 101100111010 1001011001000110000 101010001111010001100 00101011111 10101001101101111010 101011101110 111010111000 11000101110010 01001001010 1110010001110100 10001101010 11100010 11010011111010001 110110 10000100110 100111100 10001100100011100100 10011001100110100 110010011100110110 100100000111010 011000 1000100100 11010010110001101100 100100110 10010101011 10100101000 1000101110101110 1110010011 111111101110 10111001000110 11101000 11110010011100 1111001111000 1000 1001001100 011001001000100100 110010111000 1111010 101101001010 1111001100010 1110101010 1110 10001000101010001 1110101100010 111010110 1101000111100101010 110011 010100100 10010011010010 100100110101000 1111 010101001000100 10010110001100101100 1010100111110 1101110 111111011001110 100010110110010 110100110 11000100110 111000100110 110110111001 111101100 11000011001010000 011101000010 1110000101001000 110010110 10010110 10010110 10010110010 1001001010 101110110011100 1111001100 11110110 100000010101010000100 1110001100 100010001000110001101010 10001111110 11110101001101110 1001000101 1001110001100 10011101010 010 1001001000 1001101000 10001010110 1101000 1011001110 111010000100 100010001101 100110 101100 10110001000 1101011100 01010000110 1110101010 11011101111 011110010000 1010111001101111100 1110110110010 101101001101000 011100010100 1011010001100 1100111011100 10100110111000 1011011010000 110011010010 011000111100 1100010111001001100 1000 1110111010 011100110 10011100010 1100011000 11110001100 101011011 11101001010 11001100 111000001100 1110100111010 11100010 1100100011001010 101100 10000101110100 1110110110101 1011000 010110101010 10100110010 101010111100 110110110010100 10110001 1100110110111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 501
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 178
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, de, tu, o, con, y, la, oro, n, los, todos, hombres, del, el, en, al, por are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, de, muerte, o, con, y, qu, al, por are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines jame, hombres are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases a, sube, toros connect the lines.

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