This is an analysis of the poem El Esclavo Pedro that begins with:

Fidelidad, tú eres hija del cielo;
En vano tus altares mancha el perverso:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXcXXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011010110 1101100101100 11010 101001111100 10111101110 10111100101 10110 1001111101010 11100110110010 11110011110 111 100100011111 101101011001 110110111101 1111010 10101111000 101110100110 111001111010100 1011110 1100110010100 1110100111 1110011101011 1110 10101011010 100111110011100 10001110101000 10100 1100011011010 110100011111100 11001110011000 10100 1111111100111010 010101001110 1100110010110 1011110 1000111011110 011001011110 110100011101000 110100 11110110110 1100100011001 111010001100 11100 110100011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 274
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, el, las are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, donde, me are repeated.

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

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  • summary of El Esclavo Pedro;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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