Poem Analysis of Canción Nocturna by León de Greiff for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Canción Nocturna that begins with:

In your hair is the perfume of the night,
in your eyes the thunderous light of a storm....

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Rhyme scheme: abCa deXe fXba Xgff fbbCX dd Xg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,2,2,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 0110001001 01101001001 0100110111 110100011001 010011111001 1011111101 10001010011 110110101100 10011110001 011011001000 1001111110 100110011001 1010001100 001111100110 10100010011 011111011101 10011010101 0110101001001 001001101111 0100110111 111111111 0101111010 111011011 100101110
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, night, your, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, night are repeated.

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Canción Nocturna by León de Greiff: poem analysis

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