This is an analysis of the poem La Cabeza, El Corazon Y La Mano that begins with:
LA MANO
Abierto un libro nuevo está sobre la mesa; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A bXbXX X X cXX XcXd XXXX aXaXX Ae XeXX XdXX XXXX A X XaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,1,3,4,4,5,2,4,4,4,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 10011010011110 11010110100101 10010101100010 111100 11110 1100 1011010010 111010111011 101101110100 1110011010 10110010100100 111011010 011001100100 110101000001 1011110110010 110001100110 1111011100 1100110100 1101101111010110 111111011101110 11011110111111010 1101100 1100010 110 1101 101110110 1001011001 110010011110 110010111010 11010111100 1110001011001 101001010110 111101101110 11001111110 10010100100 10110100010 11101011010 110 1101111001100100 110110011100 10010101011010 11001110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, el, de, su, y, que, los are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.
The author used the same word como at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word temblar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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