Tu Boca (Your Mouth) by Delmira Agustini: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tu Boca (Your Mouth) that begins with:

Spanish
Yo hacía una divina labor, sobre la roca ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXbb bbb bX XXb X a cdXcc XXe ed dXcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,3,2,3,1,1,5,3,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 11010100101110 1011000110100 11010111110 11011110101010 101100101110 1011111010010 1110011100010 101110110110110 1000010110110 11001010001100 1010010000101100 1011100111100110 11011101000110 11101111100100 10 111101100101 10010010 111110101 110010101 010010011011 11110101 00101001010 101010001011 1001010111 1110100101 1010010101100 10111011001 11001001001 1110110001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, de, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word alg is repeated.

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

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