This is an analysis of the poem Al Salto Del Tequendama that begins with:
Mudo a tu vista de terror y espanto
El oprimido corazón palpita, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX Xbbc XXX XccX XXXX XXXX XXX XXXXX XaXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,4,4,4,3,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100101100 1100010100 101101010100 11001110110 111011100100 110011100100 1001111001100 111010110 11100011011 1111101100 10111100100 010100111110 1110001101000 110101010100 10100111010 110101000110 1110100111010 1100100110 1010101100 11111011001000 10110100100 1111101010000 11000111000 11000100010 1111101001000 11001111001000 101110011010 111011011100 11100010001 100100110001 11101011100100 11101101000 1000110100 1100100111 10111101000 1100100100 01010110010 1111010001110 11101100100 110100001100 1111101010100 111110110111100 111110001110010 0101101110010 111101001010 11110011010 011001100010 100110011100 1010111010 11010011010 1100011100100 110110011001000 11001100100110 1111100111000 101111110100110 10011000101110 100100100110100 1001101001100 111010100101100001 1001110101000 1010011010101 100110010011000 1001100001100010 10101101110 010100110100 1001000011010 101100101001000 10010001110100 1011100110100 110011001101000 11001101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; la, en, y, las, el are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, y, quisiera are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).
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- summary of Al Salto Del Tequendama;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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