This is an analysis of the poem Los Dados Eternos that begins with:

Para Manuel Gonzales Prada, esta
emoción bravía y selecta, una de las...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc cdXXd abdXX XXXXXXXX XXcaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101010 100101100100111 111100011110 101110 10110100110110 110101011 1011101000 1110100011100 1110101111 101111001010 1100110 101110011 110100110 111011111011 111110101100 10111000 1011010110 110001101011 1111001111 1100010 10111100011 1011010010 101110110100 111101110 11111011010 010010011010 11110101110 111001001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; t is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Los Dados Eternos;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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