This is an analysis of the poem La Desgracia that begins with:

¡Yo te conozco, maga engañadora,
Porque tu imperio hasta mi vida alcanza, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXaX bXbXXXXX XXXXXX XX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,6,2,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101000 1110010110100 11100110011000 11001101110 11010110010 1101101000 1101101101 110101110 1101001100010 11110111010 1101100100 1110010100110 1111001010 1100101010 101011001 11010011110 1101101010010 111010110 11100110100 110010010 1010111110010 1100010011100 1111101100010 11110010 1101101101110 1111110010 101010010010 11110001111 10011011000 11110111000 101011011000 101011001 110101110010 011000110010 1101111110100 1101001011 11111001100100 110011010 111010101110 100101011 110011110110 11100110100 1110001111011 10110001011 11100101000 1110010110100 1101111011000 11011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; el, que, de, mi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    The author used the same word t 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 is repeated).

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  • summary of La Desgracia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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