This is an analysis of the poem A Virginia Y Rufino that begins with:

Recuerdos de infortunios y delicias
De otro mundo tal vez, llevo en el alma;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010001100 0101011101110 010011001100 011010010010 1110011100 1101011110 11101001100 111011110 111010001010 10101000101010 110111010011 0101011011100 110011101100 11110101000 10110101100 11000101100 10101101110 1101100110100 1110001100 1010111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; de, y are repeated.

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

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