This is an analysis of the poem A Manfredo that begins with:

El penoso viaje hacemos juntos;
Me ofreces tu amistad, te doy la mía. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX Xa XbXX XbXa XXcX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XX cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110010 110011011111 1111011011 1111011110010 10011001100 11011100111100 111010001100 11101111101000 1100010111 1010011010 10110011011110 10101110011110 10111010110 0101000010000 10010101000100 01001010010100 001011100 1000111111010 111111110010 1011011011 1110110011000 101101100010 1101101011110 101011011100 11101001001 11110111011101110 111010011000 101101111 0111101100 110011010 111110101110 11001101100 1101010111100 1100111100 110001011100 10001101110 100110001011 1001010101000 110110101100 10011000111 101010011100 111111101000 11001100011 1111101000 10101100110 10011001100 100101011100 110101010100 1100101010 111011011100 11011011100 110100111101 1101101110 10001100100 11101010010 11001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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; la, en, de, su, yo, y, s are repeated.

    The author used the same word ven at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Manfredo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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