This is an analysis of the poem De La Señora Hortensia Lacroix De S. that begins with:

Hoy las cuerdas de mi lira
He pulsado una por una, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXaXXXXXXbXaXXXXXXXXXXaXAXaXXXXXXX XXXaXXaXXXXXXXXXaXXXAXAaXXXXXXaXXXaXXXXXXXXba XXXAXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,45,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100110 110010110 11001010 01011010 1111111 11101101110 11101100 11111000 11101100 10100100100 111001101 10010010 111110 111110110100 111100110 111011100 11111100 1100110 1110111100 11010110 1111110 10011010 11111 11101100 1111100 111001010 1111111 1111010 111101010 10100010 1100100 11111100 10110111100 10100100 0101011100 01101110 10110000 1100100 11101000 10101000 110101011110 10101100 110011000 110110110 1110100 1111011010 110111100 1111110010 101011000 10100100100 10111010 111101000 1110010010 11101010 11010010 1110110 1100111000 10111010 1111111000 1111010 111101110 110001010 111011100 10001100 11100101 110001100 011011000 11101010 111000110 10100100100 01101011 100111010 1000110 111011100 100010100 01010100 11001000 100011100 1111010 11110100 101111010 1111111010 11111100 11101100 11111000 10111010 1111100 101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 810
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; que, y, es, mi, nombre, de, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of De La Señora Hortensia Lacroix De S.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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