This is an analysis of the poem Nocturno 1 (Silva) that begins with:
Oh dulce niña pálida, que como un montón de oro
de tu inocencia cándida conservas el tesoro; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXXaaXXbbXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011010 011000101001010 0111100110100 11111000110010 11100010100010 1110100110010 111010101001110 111110011100110 1101100110110 1101111000010 11000110101111 1111100110110 11001101001110 1100110111110010 101011001001010 111110101000110 111101001100100 1000100101110 110011010111100 11110111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 920
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; y is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word y is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines as is repeated).
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