This is an analysis of the poem Muerte De Lindoya that begins with:

Terror helado corre por las venas
de Caitutú, quien deja ahí a los suyos;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001111110 01011110110 10110011100110 110010001000 1011111011000 110101100110 111010101000 1101011100 01001001010 1101111000 1000101000 1010110100 1000110110 1111100111111 11110111011110 01111100 1000101100 100110011110 1011100001 100110101110 10110110000 11011001100 11111000100110 1101000110110 11011011111 1101011100 11010110001100 11101101110 10110110110 101011001110 110100010010 1100110010011 110011110110 100111110010 100110110010 1101001110010 1110011111100 1101110100 1101001100100 1100100111000 11111111 110110010100 1111011010 110111010011 100111010010 1110101010110 1110100011 1001100110 11110001001 1111000110 11110110100 10100111000 11101101000 1100010100 110011010 11110100011 10101000100 110111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 408
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, en, el, y are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Muerte De Lindoya;
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  • history of its creation;
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