This is an analysis of the poem ¡a Nada! that begins with:

¿Me preguntas Edelmira,
A que me supo esa pasta ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXa XaXaXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXa XbXXXXXa XX XXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXa XXXXXaXXXXXXXXXcXX XdXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXdXXX eXXaX XXaXa XXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXX XXXa XaXXXXXX XcXXeaXaXXXXXa XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,12,8,2,24,18,4,14,12,5,5,18,4,8,14,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001000 011101010 1001101 11110010 0101100 111001010 11011000 11111010 11011100 11011110 1111110 1101010 11010100 1101011110 1111010 10100111110 11101111100 1010010 11101010 11011110100 11100100 101001110 111111010 1000111100 101101100 1101101010 111101000 11010010 10100100 11011010 1110110010 11101110 1110100100 110110010 1101011 100011100 11010100 1010110 111001100 111001000 0101011110 11110111000 11110001110 10100110 10111100 1010110 111011010 1111000 1110110 111011110 111001100 11100011110 1000111100 111010110 110111100 11001000 10100110 0111011110 1100111100 101000100 101101100 10101010 100011000 10101110 010110010 11010010 10111100 0101111100 1110011111 11100110 11111110 11001100 11111000 1011010 1110011100 110110010 1011110100 1110011110 010100100 11100110 10010110 101100100 11111101000 10100101 11001110 11100110 1101100 11111000 11011100 1100111100 110010110 1101011110 11000100 101010000 111001000 11010100 111000110 111010110 110111100 1111101010 1111110 1110011100 110001100 11100100 1111101000 110010 11100100 1001010 0101001 0101010 10011100 1010100 1111001010 1011111100 1001000 111110 1101111100 1010101000 111011000 1100110 10101110 11010010 1110011110 1111110100 01010100 110101100 11101100 11010110 110101000 111001110 1011110 1101110100 011111100 101000100 11111010 110011000 11101111100 1100010 0111100 111010110 11100100 10100100 10010110 101011010 10001000 111100010 1011000 11010010 1110010010 10101000 0111100100 110010100 11100100 101000110 11111010100 11000100 1101110010 11110010 111000 110010010 10010111110 100110100 1100111 111111010 10111000 11111010 10001000 011101010 011011010 1100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • 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; me, cual, cuando, que, se, las, si, el, de, o, supo, tu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cual, y, que, no, si, o, de, ya, a are repeated.

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  • summary of ¡a Nada!;
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