This is an analysis of the poem Una Lagrima that begins with:

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Te vi, mi corazón de niño...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcX XXX X XXbXXXXX X XXdXXXXa X XXXXdXXc a XXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111001 11100100110 1101101110010 11110101110 1111111010 111001010100 1110010010 1000101010 1 111011010 111000110100 11000110010 1101100011 1110011010 1100110010 1110011010 1001010101 1 11100011010 11100011101 10010011010 110110001 11001101100 10001101100 1111110010 1100101011 1 101011001 10110100100 11111011111 110010110 111011011010 11110011010 1100110010 101010010 1 10111100 10110100111100 11101000101000 01101000100 111011100110 111000110100 10101001100 110001111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • 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; de is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fuiste, en, del, y are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).

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  • summary of Una Lagrima;
  • central theme;
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