This is an analysis of the poem En El Album that begins with:
Era una tarde... al pie de tus ventanas
y al través de la espesa celosía, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXX XaXXXaaX ba XXXXXX baaXbXbX XaaXcXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101100 11101100100 1011100100 11001011000 1101011010110 11001000111 10110100110 101101000110 1111111010 110010010010 11110110100 110111010 11111110000 1001101100010 110011000010 11100010110 111110110 1100100110 011011000100 111001010 1110011111000 110110010101 0100010100010 11100101 100101110 100110010110 1110010001110 1001101010 110010010010 111001010100 11010110110010 111010011010 1010011001000 11000110010 1011111000010 11001101 111100100110 10100110100 1100011100110 101001100011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, como, el, tu, mi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word como is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of En El Album;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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