This is an analysis of the poem The Stranger (La Extranjera) that begins with:
She speaks in her way of her savage seas
With unknown algae and unknown sands;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXXXXXaaXabXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100101 001101011 110010101 11010 0110111 11101011001 0101010001 1111001110 11010101001 0101010011 0111111100 11110101 10011111 1011010101 11011011 11011100 010011010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
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- summary of The Stranger (La Extranjera);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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