This is an analysis of the poem A Los Ee.Uu. De Colombia that begins with:

Vednos aquí con el fusil al brazo
Esperando el descanso o el alerta. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX XXXX aaXX a XaX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110110 1000110011100 101111101100 1100111101000 10110011010 100110011110 111011011010 111010110110 111111101100 1010101000100 100010010010 111011101010 1011010101110 1110001001010 11001101100 11001001111010 110001100110 11010010110 011011010100 1101010010 10101010100 101110011010 110001100100 11100100110 110011010100 0110010110 11001001100 1000110100110 101111011 10110111100110 1010101001100 110101101010 11100111101100 11000111110 101001011 1110011100110 1011001011000 10010010100 111001001010 101001010010 10010011000 110110110100 1110011011011 1111101000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; el, de, la, y are repeated.

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

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