This is an analysis of the poem Día De Difuntos that begins with:

La luz vaga... opaco el día,
la llovizna cae y moja...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXccXcXXXcdXcXXXebXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcdXXXXXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXacXfXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXdcXXXXXXXXXXXXfXfXfbXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 137,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010011 11001110 11101000110110011 1111000100010100 1100101000101000 11111111011110111100 11011110100110010 1111111010 10001100 11001000 11001100 1110111100 11110010011100110 0110 111010001100 1100110011100 110001011100 110110110010 11011110 111010010 11100110 1110110 10101010 100101110 111001010 1011010 11101110 11110011011110100 101100010100 1101011110 1110 11111010100100 111101100100100 0100010010101 011110000110101 110111010110010 11110111 10011000 01010110 010101100 101010101000 11111110 1010110100 1111011 1101111110 1101100111 110100110100 111110101110 11101101110100 1111101100 10111110100 10011010110 10011110100100 1011110100 1110100 10110011110 110010 101010 101010 111110011100 110110 1010110 101010100 111101 111100010 01100110 11001100 1110100 110101000 11110010 10010100 10110110 1000110 1111100010 11001100 0110010 01111001000 1101000 110101100 1111100 110111000 110111000 11011110 111010100110 1111101011000 111100110010 111100110100 11011100110110 10111100110111 11010101110 11101101100 1011110011011 111110110010 1001110111 1000110111000 10100001101 1101101110100 10111100110100 11010101110100 101100101100 101000011000 1011110011011110 101001101100 10111100101000 100101011010 111100101101110 111110001111100 1011100110010 011011001110100 10110101100 010010011011 1111110101000 11100111010 1101000111010 110110111010 11011100011100 11011100 10111010011011100 110110110010 11011110 111110110 01000010 11100100 100011111 11101101 11011110 11001111010 10001100 11011110 10101100 11001000 11001100 010100010 1110111100111100 111100100 11100110 0110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4871
  • Average number of words per stanza: 887
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, y, de, por, suena, en, que, el, mismo, lo, campanas, las are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, de, y, lejos, que, del, en are repeated.

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

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