This is an analysis of the poem El Romanticismo Tetrico that begins with:

Deja, oh amigo, deja ya el lamento
Monótono, insufrible de tus penas;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXa bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXc dXXcXXXX dXb X XXXe XXXX XfXX XXXg XXbg fXXX fXhi XXfX X XXX XXgX XXXX XXXX bXXX cXhi XXXX XXXX XXXe b XbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXiXXX XXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,7,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111111100 1001000110 11101001010 1111011 1101101000 11001001100 1000111100 100110100 111101010100 01000110010 11110111010 1101101 111100100010 101010011000 1110011011000 01010110010 0111011000 1011000100110 11001100100 111 011110111100 111000101100 111000100110 11000110001 11110110100 10101011000100 111101110010 10011 100001010110 1011101100 11110001000110 1001110110001 1011101110 1100011010101 11110100010 1001110 1011011011110 1100100100 10000111010 10010 1011101000 0111001100100 11010001100100 101101001 100101101000 111001100100 10110011100 11001 1011010101 111001001110010 11000110100 11011001010 101101110100 111011100100 110011110000 0101011 1001111000100 10101011010 100011110010 1011110110001 101101010010 10001111110 1011011110 10010 101111001010 110101001 1111101000010 1011010111 10111101000 111001000110 101111011010 10010 1011010100010 11010001001 110111010011 1100111010010 111110010 10110011110 10010001011 100110 11001111000 10110110010 110101000 10110100011 110110001100 110101011100 111001101100 1101000 111000111010 101010010 11100010110 111011101000 1010110001 11010001100 1111001100010 1100111 011111001000 0111011011100 0101111010 1100100100 01100110010 101111101100 110010111100 11010 1011111100 10110110010 1101100010 110101110001 101110110110 1110101110100 1111101110 11110 11100100011110 0100111100 1100010010000 110001110 11011101000 11100001100 10110101000 1101000 10111001100 11001011011000 110111101000 1101100 1111101100010 10100101100 111111001010 10111010101 1110110010 11110010001 11010111010 1111001010011 101100111011 1000110100 01100101101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, que, del, el, en, y are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words no, de, canta, mira at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, o are repeated).

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

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