This is an analysis of the poem A Mi Amigo Federico Velasquez that begins with:
“¿Con qué has visto la muerte hace ya tiempo
Acercarse hacia ti con paso fijo, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa Xb Xa XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXa XXXX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111110 10010111010 111000110100 1111100101 101001110110 11011100010 1101110100 11111011001 11101011110 11101010000 010111111000 10010100011 1110111111100 111011101100 1100110110100 11101100100 110010100110 0111010001110 11000110100 111000111 1100111110 11000100010 11110111110 1111100101 110110110 110110100 101111011100 1111101100 111001010110 111000101100 111001010010 11011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; con, no, si, lo, s, es, preciso are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word qu is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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