This is an analysis of the poem Poesia that begins with:

No alumbra, no, la inspiración sublime
Del rayo ardiente la siniestra luz; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb cXXX XXXa XXXX cXcd XbeXcXXX XaXX X cXXX XFcXXXXX XXXd XFcXXXeXc XXX XgXX XXeg XXeX cXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,8,4,1,4,8,4,9,3,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011100001 1101011001 011101100100 11011111011 1001011010010 11010110001 111010011010 1110100110011 1101010110 10101110010 1110110100 1100110100001 10110111001 10101100100 010100110010 111001001 101101100110 100111010 01010110010 1011001001 10110111001 10101111011 1101001010 1000101100 1110011100100 010110110010 11101000100 1110011101 1111001101000 111001110001 1100010110100 1111001001 1 10110110 1001100 1001110 10001000 11001001 1101101 011110 1110010 11111101100 111111010 101011000 1001000 1001110110 111010 10111010 111110010 100011100 1101101 11100110 110010 11001101100 111111010 1111010 1101000 11000110 10010110 1001110 10001000 111001111000 110101110 111110101000 110101110 111010010 1010111100 1110011010 101101101 111001011000 10110110 11011100010 110100111 111001100010 1100110011 10110100010 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; no, la, el, de 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 cu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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