This is an analysis of the poem La Sombra De Mis Cabellos. From The Spanish.—sixteenth Century that begins with:

My love lay there,
In the shadow of my hair,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccB ddbeeBfffggfaabddB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 0011011 11101010101 111101 0111101 1111010011 0010111 111101 10101010011 1110001 1111001 1111010011 111101 1110101 1011011101 1111111 1010101 11110010101 1111101 1010111 01001001010101 1100111 110101 1111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; my, he, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word no at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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