This is an analysis of the poem Carlos Pradilla that begins with:

¡Qué feliz es la infancia! exclama el joven;
¡Qué bella y feliz la juventud! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa Xb XcXXd XceXX XbXXX XXXXf aXXXX XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXaXd XXXXg XXXXc XdXXf XXXXc XXX XX XXhXf XgeXX XXXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,3,2,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100100110 1101101100 1111011001110 1011011 11100011111001 1111111011100 1010101110 110101011100 10100 1101011111001 1110010011100 10100011011 110001001110 11101100 11000111110 100110001100 1100010101 110011011010 111000 1010011000 1000110011 100101110 11001110100 1101100 111111101111 11100100110 1111111 1111101111100 1001100 11110011101 101101010 010101111 110010111 1101111 1111010011110 1100010110 10100111110 1010101100110 1001000 11100011110 1110110111 10010100110 11101111011010 101010 100100001100 111100011001 111011101100 111111010 11001100 101110001110 11111001100110 1001110 11101110110 10011100 1101111 111011110 1101011000 110011011010 11011 11010101101 101100011011 100100110110 100101011 10010 1111110110 1101000100 11001010011 1010111110 11011111 1111110101 1110100110 100100110 1101100101 110100 1010001001 11010101110 1001101 1001001110 1101100 1101011110 1111110111111 1111011111 111100110 10101110 11111111 110011011100 101110100001 1111010110 10010010 10100111010 1110011101000 101011011110 11111110100 1011111101 10101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, ni, el, y, que, su, en, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu, y, que, lo are repeated.

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

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