This is an analysis of the poem Serenata (José Asunción Silva) that begins with:
La calle está desierta; la noche fría;
velada por las nubes pasa la luna;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXXX XaXAXXXa XaXAbaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100111 10011111010110 100011001100 11111010010110 10101101011 101111010010 101101111010 01100 1101100111 1011001110 100011001100 1111001111010110 111100011110 10110011101100 101010011010 11110001010010 1101100111 11100101110 1001011001100 1111001111010110 11011101011 011010011100110 111011001111010 01100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; la is repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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