This is an analysis of the poem Piedra De Sol that begins with:

La treizième revient...c’est encor la première;
et c’est toujours la seule-ou c’est le seul moment; ...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,11,7,10,8,8,9,8,6,8,11,33,11,9,9,18,6,28,24,10,35,47,32,32,13,28,55,16,21,31,8,9,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 609
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, est, le, re, ou, c, un, de, que, luz, por, tu, como, tus, falda, agua, busco, el, piso, y, del, los, todos, son, solo, mi, se, sabe, lo, alguien, calles, nuestra, al, cada, es, las, en, grito, no, nada, su, somos, vida, m, otros, cara, d, ser, rostro are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, tu, voy, piso, busco, escritura, todos, y, como, miradas, o, es, las, el, caminas, que, no, la, los, mi, cara, caigo, d, para are repeated.

    The author used the same words voy, busco, no, puerta at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cuerpo, agua, o, manos, espacio, silencio, muerte, nuestra, somos, amanece are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word todos at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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