This is an analysis of the poem Plegaria that begins with:

Spanish
–Eros: acaso no sentiste nunca ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbbXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXcbXXXdXXXeXXXfXdXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXX d XX a gDceXdehdXfdXGDddXihjjdegaXkdddXjXecdedXddhiXjedXfXXdkfiid hXGd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,59,1,2,1,58,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1010011010 100111100 1110100010 01111100010 1101001001000 1101000110 11100101100 1001111000110 11001000110 11011011 100110011100 11001001100 10001101011 1010011010 100111100 101011110 11010101100 11011001100 10101101000 110100110 1111101111000 1010100100 10011001010 1010111101000 01011100 1101000011 111111100110 10101101100 1000010 1000100 10100010010 10110110110 1010111101000 100100 1001010 110101100010 1011001100 10101101000 10011010 1010100 1000010010 101011010100 10011 01001100110 1011010 11100010 1100010 11111111100 10101101000 11000010 10010101100 1010111101000 010001100 1110010 1111001000110 101010 101011110110 01100001000 11001001100 1000111110 1010011010 100111100 10 1011101 1001011 1100001 110001 0101010001 01010011 10011010 0100101 10010011 111011000 1001001100 00100110001 111111 101110011 1001011 100101 101111110 11110010 10010101 00101001 010011101 1101111 10110110 100101101 11001 00101001 001010001 100101110 1100011 010011 1101110 110111101 1001010101 10010 10111 10111 110101010 10010100100 1010 11010 1011101 100101101010 10010010011 1110010 101101 010010 0111101101 1001010010 1100101 0010100100 10010101100 101001 101001 1001010 10010010 1101010 101101 01100110 1111110 101110011 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, la, piedad, of, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words piedad, piety, the are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase negro connects the lines.

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