This is an analysis of the poem Nocturno (Silva) that begins with:
Una noche,
una noche toda llena de perfumes, de murmullos y de música de alas,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXBBXXXXbXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXbXXBBXXXbaBBXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 101101000101001010001 101 11101110101101111000100 0110100101101010110 101110000010001000 101101100011011000 11101100011001000 1000 111010 111010001000110010011110 1110 10110 1110 111001101000 111101010 011011100 11010 11010 11010101010 11010101010 11010101010 101 11110 100111100010001100011 100001101110111011100 11100010 11011100 11110 11101000 1111110001100110 011010 11100 011110 11101111011100 1100111011101000 101111001 011110010 101111001011011 10110110 1110 111001101000 1010 1010 1010111001000 111010011 10110 10110110001100010 1011011000101001010001 111011110 111011110 1110111101111101000 111110011011110111110011110 111110111101111011111001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1821
- Average number of words per stanza: 369
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, una, noche, y, eran, por, la, tus, era, el, o, fr, se, ella, con, march, acerc are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words una, y, era, iba, como, se, oh are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines una, larga, sola, ella are repeated).
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- summary of Nocturno (Silva);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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