This is an analysis of the poem De La Señorita Paulina Granados that begins with:

¿Para qué te sirve el álbum?
¿Para qué sirve ese libro? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXbXXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX cXXXXXXXXXXXcXbXcXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,8,24,6,4,6,20,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 1011110 10111110 10011000 11110110 10100100 11000100 11110100 110101000 11001100 100110110 010011000 11010100 100101000 11100100 1111100 110011100 110101100 110110100 101110000 111011000 111010 1111010 11110100 11011111010 111111100110 11011110 10001011 11110111100 110001110 1110101 11100100 10001100 110111010 0111011110 11010011 111011100 1110100 11010100 11110100 11111101 11011111000 10010000 111001000 11100110 1001100 111011000 1100010 1110111000 111111100110 1001110 10100010 11010100 1101100 111101000 11001000 11111001100 111111100 1111101000 111010110 11011100 1000110 110101110 111011100 111111110 111111100110 10100110 111011100 11001110 11111100 1010100 1010100 1101100 1110110 101011110 1101100 10011000 11100100 10010110 1100100 1111001101 11101100 100111010 1101110 100011100 011010100 11101100 10110100 11010100 10111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • 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; para, que, en, su, un are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word libro at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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