This is an analysis of the poem Infancia that begins with:

Con el recuerdo vago de las cosas
Que embellecen el tiempo y la distancia...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXaXXXXXbbXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010011110 1100011011100 100011110100 11000101000 11010001100 10000101010 10000100010 110111110011 101011101 111100 101010010 110001101000 10101011010 1101010 0110110010 1110100010 0110100 111000110010 1001000100100 1111000101010 10110010010 1010110 1101001010100 0110011110010 10111101100 11010 111001010100 1111101001110 11010001000 10001100 1111001001000 1001111001000 10001100 11000100100 1110111100100 11100100100 100110 01111101000 11100111000 11101 11001101000 11101001000 110001010000 100100101100 101010111100 11010011010 1100110 111011101000 1111011101 110010 010111000100 10101001000 100110 1000010 1010010100 1101011001 1001100 010101001000 111110 1111001100110 110101100010 1110101000 110111001000 10011001010 11001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2017
  • Average number of words per stanza: 362
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • 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, de, c, mo are repeated.

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

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Infancia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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