This is an analysis of the poem Tiempo, Tiempo that begins with:

Mediodía estancado entre relentes.
Bomba aburrida del cuartel achica...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX a XXa X XaX X XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,1,3,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 100100010100 101000110100 10101010 1010 101001000110 1011011100 10101010 1010 110010101 101101010 10101010 11 11110101001 1110100110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 57
  • Average number of words per stanza: 10
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; tiempo, era, ana, ma are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same words era, ana, nombre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Tiempo, Tiempo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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