This is an analysis of the poem Super Flumina Babylonis that begins with:
En Babilonia, a orillas de su río,
Un día, en cautiverio, nos sentamos, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXaX aXXb XXXX XXXX XXXb XX XX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100001000111 11110001100 110110100 1000110001 101111001010 11001101000 10101001110 100011011 11011001100 1100110110 1101010110 010100101010 1011010000 11011110100 11001110010 1100101001010 100100010 111111011100 11001011000 101101000011 11010111111 111111001100 111010110010 100001100 100111100 1000111100 10001000101100 1011010010 1010010101000 110110011100 100101101110 0111011001 110000010110 101100101100 111100111100 110001101 101111001 110010010000 11111101001000 01111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nos is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines an is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Super Flumina Babylonis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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