This is an analysis of the poem En La Noche Callada that begins with:
Ay! cuántas veces en las lentas horas
De la noche callada, antes que el sueño...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011111010 01110010111 101011010 1100101101 01010101000 0110011001 110001010010 11001000100 110111010010 110111000110 1011100101 11010101110 11011100100 1111000100100 110110011110 01100101101 1100111101000 1001001100 110101100 110010100010 11111011100 11110010011100 101001111110 11010110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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 word sus is repeated.
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- summary of En La Noche Callada;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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