This is an analysis of the poem El Vulgo that begins with:
“Bien cortos los años son
Que el hombre en el mundo tiene,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXX XbXXXXcXcbXXcXXXXXXXXXXXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111011101 11100110 1101111 1111100 10100111 11101011110 10110100 11100100 010001100 111011010 111011010 11100100 110011010 110011011010 11100100 11010010 11010110 11010110 110100110 01001110 111100010 10100010 111010111 110111 11100110 101110110 110000110 1100011 11110100 0110100 11010010 11001000 11001000 11100100 111101110 11011000 1011111100 110110100 1100110 100101000 11010110 11010111 11110110 1111010101 111101011 111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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:
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; el, los, que, y, haya, tan, todo are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words si, y, que, tan are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gozan is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of El Vulgo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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