This is an analysis of the poem Gacela Of Unforseen Love that begins with:

No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabc XbXd XedX Xecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11101001 001010011 111111110 0101010111 010101010101 0010010110 1111101 11100001 011011011 101101 11011011 010010111000 100010001001100 11001011 11011011 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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  • summary of Gacela Of Unforseen Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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