This is an analysis of the poem La Tumba Del Soldado that begins with:

El vencedor ejército la cumbre
Salvó de la montaña,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXAXXXXXXXaXXXXXAXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010011 10110 111110001000 10101111 1100010 10010011000 1001100 1110111000 1011101100 110100101010 111110000 110011011001 101011001010 100100 1110010011 111100111101110 11100111 1111101100 1100010 1001100 111010011100 1101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 684
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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; la, del, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of La Tumba Del Soldado;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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