This is an analysis of the poem Preciosa Y El Aire that begins with:

Su luna de pergamino
Preciosa tocando viene...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXaXXb XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXXXX XXXX XXXX aXXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001000 1001001 11100010 01001100 11001100 1001100 11111110 11110010 111001010 11000010 1001111011 1101100 11100110 100110 10001000 11001010 111001000 1001001 11011111000 1101101 1100000100 10010100 1001100100 1011010 10011110 1100101 11110100 11010011 100101100 111100 1101000110 11001010 1111011 11001000 101111001000 11101011 1001100 11111010 1001100 10000111 10000010010 11101000 10010010 10111011 1001000110 1100001100 10001110 1100001 110101000 1110111110 11000101010 11001001 110100100 110011110 11010100 11101001001 1111100100 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • 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; los, preciosa are repeated.

    The author used the same words su, preciosa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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