This is an analysis of the poem Romance Sonámbulo that begins with:

Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches....

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCadeAFAafg AbhaibdbjeAc ikfdlXciCKcimXXdabnoCKdBcbab pBiXbkXd AbpddmcmqqjealAFafdnXjABCa a o EXjXXXENEnrX EXXnXXXXXXEX XnrnXXXXQNXnXXXXXnXXQNXXXXnn XXXXXXmX EXXXhXgXfXXX XneNnnXnXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,28,8,26,1,1,12,12,28,8,12,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11110 011101 1011010 0010101 1110100 11011 010110 111111 100101 111100 111010 111111 1101 1001011 1100101 011101 001100010 1010101 1001010 1101101 10110100 11011 1000101 111101 11101 1101010 111010 111110 001010 00010011 111111 111111 1011111 111101 100011 01001100 0100110 1110111 0111011 11111 101110 1110110 1010011 111111 1011111 111111 1001100 111111 1001100 10001 1101010 101111 1001100 100101 1001010 111 0100101 010101000 11011 111111 11110 01111 0111 011011 01011010 1110111 101101 110111011 110111111 1111 101100 10010010 0101110 11011 010110 110001 10101010 0101100 101010 1010100 010101 111111 11110 011101 1011010 01011010 010010 10111010 10101010 110111 111001110 111011100 10111100 1011010 1100110 10111010 10110010 1111011010 11011100 10111010 101000100 10111010 111010110 1010101110 11100110 11101010 10011010 1011111 101111100 1011010 10111100 101010 110011110 1100111010 110011110 1010100 1110010 11100100 11011100 1011111 111011110 101010 10001110 0010111 1111100100 111100110 111001100 10010100 10110010 1110011 10000110 1011111 111011110 1010110 1011110100 101010 1011110100 10000110 11100110 11011100 1011110100 10011001 100110010 10011100 100001000 1100010 1011000 10111010 10101010 11100100 11010100 111011011 01010101000 101011 10111100 1010110 101011000 10101010 11010100 1110110 11101010 1011010 1100110 1100010 1101110 11111010 10101010 10100100 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 172
  • 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; green, her, its, my, for, i, your, of, verde, la, en, yo, dejadme, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words green, my, leaving, the, how, verde, mi, dejando, cu, la are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases green, up, verde connect the lines.

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