This is an analysis of the poem La Lagrima that begins with:
Cuando el amor o la amistad debieran
A la ternura despertar el alma, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXX XX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXX aXaXXXXX XXXaXXXX XXXXXX bX baXaXXXX XXXXXXaX XabXXaXX XXXaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,8,8,8,8,6,2,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101100 01100100110 11111001000100 11010 1011010100 101001000110 1011001001110 11010 1010011010 110001110100 1101100110 1110 111001011100 10110100110 11100011000 11010 1101011000100 111011010100 11000111101000 111100 1110011111101000 1100000111100 1011001011010 10110 11010011100 110001011100 110111110010 1111100 101001111110 1110010001 101101110010 11010 110110001100 111011011000 1010110001 1011010 111000101100 110001110100 1111101110010 11010 110011100 1110011101100 111000101100 1111010 1111101000 1101110100 11001100111 11010 11101001010 11000011010 011101011010 10110 1010011001 11111011100 1010100001100 11010 1101011100 1010001110100 11010011 1101100 111001000110 11101010110 111001100010 11010 101100011001 11110101110 101101001 101010 11010110011 11110001110 10001001100 11010 11100011000 101100100100 1010011110100 11110 111100011 1101001110010 1111011101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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, una, mi, lo are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word grima at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of La Lagrima;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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