This is an analysis of the poem Notas Perdidas that begins with:

Es media noche.
Duerme el mundo ahora ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXbXaXbXXX XXXXXX cXXbXXdXXXaXXX XbXXXXXXXX XbeXXX XaXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXaXXXXceXXXabX aXXf XXXfafXXXXde XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX aXaXXX XaaXaaXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXbXdXXXXXaaXaaaXXX XXXXXXXXaXbXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,14,10,6,30,4,12,18,6,41,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001 1110100 101100101100 1010010 1110100 010100 100111000 1111101010 1011100010 101010 1101110011000 11001111010 10011100 1111100 110101101000 10101010011010 101100 11001100110110 100110 111000 111101100 1110011 111011010 1010010 1101110 101001010 110111010 1110000010 10111101110 1001110 10110100 110011110 11110010 101110100 11110000100 1010001110100 1001110 01010111000 1111100 10111000100 1010010 11110011100100 111101010 110101100 0110010 10101101011 1010110 101100101 101100 111011101 1011010 11111110 11011101110 1000100 1011101000 11010111100 10111100 11110100 10101000 101010100 11011 1011110 101110 11010100 1110011010 1101010 111100110 101100110 101010010 11111010 110100100 1111010 10110000 111010011 011011001 101001000 10100100 10110100 10110010 11010010 11000110 110110101110 11011011001 11111110100 110110 11110111100100 111100101010 1110010110 0111010 11110111100110 1111110 111011001 10110 11110111101000 1100011010 10110010011110 11110 10010 10100100 11100100 0110010 11100110 10011000 11101000 1111001100 11100100 0111101110 11101100 11011100 01111011 11101000 1111100100 10111 1111101000 1111010 1011110 10100100 101101110 111110110 10010110 1000 1 11011010 1111001110 11010010 101101110 1111110 111110011110 10010100 10011100 101110100 1110011 11011000 1101001 1010100 111010 100110100 01100010 111001110 10011100 11110100 0101100 1101010010 1001010010 10011011 11101010 10110100 11010100 1011110010 1111000100 0111000 11101000 1111010110 11100110 111000110 10111100 11011111010 1101011110 11101010 110001 111011100 101010100 100111 10011010 111000100 10110100 110011110 110010 1111010 11001000 11011010 110010010 1011001010 011110000 100111 10011010 111000100 10110100 110011110 110010 101001010 10011010 01101 1110010 10110110 11110010 1100010 11100110 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 194
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; el, que, en, de, los, la are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.

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