This is an analysis of the poem ¡miserere! that begins with:

¡Misericordia, oh Dios, oh Dios eterno!
Escucha las palabras de mi boca: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX baXX aXXX X XXa XXXa XXXX XaXX bXXX bXXX XXaa XXXX XXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000110110100 1001111000110 1011000011100 11010110000 100100011000 11000111010 111010100100 11011110010 110000010110 0111010010 111000100 110110110110 1010010101110 11010101010 110100011100 1110011100 1110111000 100100001100 1110011011100 11110110010 111010011100 110110111000 1110110100 10001110011100 1101100011100 1000101011000 10110110100 10111111100 1100100110100 11110100110 11100101100 101101100010 11101011010 10011001010 11001111100 110110110100 111110010 10110011100100 101100011100 11110011100100 1011010010 1111100100 110011001110 110011110010 1111110101100 1111100010 111010010100 10101110110 11111010110 11111100 1110011010 1001011110 10110011010 111001000100 11001110111 1011110000
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, y, tu, n, mi are repeated.

    The author used the same word tu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of ¡miserere!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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