This is an analysis of the poem Melancolía (Silva) that begins with:
De todo lo velado,
tenue, lejana y misteriosa surge ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100 1100110001 101000 1101110110 11001000110 11101 111000111101010 0110100 1010010 110100101011101 100100 111100011001 11111110000110 11111101 11111010010 1111101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; se is repeated.
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