This is an analysis of the poem En Su Tumba that begins with:

Permite amigo, que en lugar de lágrimas,
Que a mis ojos ya nunca volverán, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXb XbXc XcXX XXXX XdXX XXXc XXXXX XXd XXXc XXXX XXXX XdXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,3,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111110010 1011011010 111001101010 10111000101 110100110110 111010001 11101011110100 1101001101 1101011000100 11010101011 101110100100 1100100110 10110111010 100010110 11010111010 110101011 1111011110 1000110010 11110100101110 1111011001010 1011010110110 10100111 101001011100 100011100 101101110010 1110100110 110001100100 111011100110 111100011110 110110111010 11011010100 11001000110 111101011100 100110110 1111001101 0101011001 11100110010 0100100011 100101100100 11101001110 111101010100 11010011010 10001110010 111001001010 11110110110 1110001001 10010101100010 1110111010 10101110010 110110111 111001101010 10111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.

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

    The author used the same words bello, y at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Su Tumba;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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