This is an analysis of the poem La Resignacion Y La Modestia that begins with:

Son las primeras líneas que reciben
Estas páginas blancas, Isabel, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XXXb XXXX XcXa Xa XX XdXd XeXX XXXd XXXX XcXe Xbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110011100 101010101 111100111100 1011111010 10111101100 1111011 111110010100 101101110011 11100111101100 0110111001100 1001001100 1010010001 111001110110 10000110 01011101100 1110111110 10011001110 1100100010 100001011100 1101000101 10101101000 111101100011 1001100011000 11100111110 101010010000 1111001110011 11100111001100 11101111011 101010101000 1011111101010010 11101111000 111010100010 10001001100 110001000010 1010011100 1100110101 100110010110 1100111110 1001100100100 10010101000 101101110110 11011101010 110011010110 111010001110 111101111010 10110010001 11101101100 10101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; de, la, y, no are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word la 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 is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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

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