This is an analysis of the poem Carta De Don Rodrigo that begins with:

Desesperado entonces don Rodrigo
Viendo a Clara perdida para él, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXX XbXa XXXX XcXd XeXX XdXf XXXe XeXX XXXX XXXX XeXX XbXX XfXX XXXX XeXX cXXb XbXX XaXX XdXXX XXX XbXf XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,3,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100001001010 10010100101 11101101100 1101111001 11001000100 101101011 110100110100 01011101000 11100101111100 111101111001 11001010110 1111011011 111010011100 11101010110 10111011100 10101110100 111001110 10000111001 101011100 11100111001 11001010100 101100111010 11000101010 01111010010 11100100110 011101101011 1010101100100 1010100111 10101010110010 1111100001 1110101101100 1111001110010 1111101011100 10101010010 11010010111000 1001111110 111101001010 1100100100 11101011000 1011101100 11110101000 1110101101 11100101100 111111010 1110011001010 11110100110 10101011100 111000100110 1110011011000 11111011001 101111111100 111110101110 1011001110110 10010101110 1110011110100 011011101010 111101111100 1101001110 1001110110 1111010 1111101101110 11010100110 11010100110100 11010110 1011010110010 1101111100 1101000100 110010011101 11110011100 10110011001 1101010100 111110111010 10011101100 1101000111 101011010100 0101101010 11110011010 110011 11100100111100 111001110 11001101000 101010101 1101100100 11101010 1111011110 1100110101 1101110110 1100100110 111011110 01001010100 10110100011 1110011011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; el, la, qu, que, quiero are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word yo is repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase quiero connects the lines.

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