La Muerta by Pablo Neruda: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Muerta that begins with:

Si de pronto no existes,
si de pronto no vives,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaX XXX X bX XXXX bbXXX XaXXXXXXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,1,2,4,5,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101100 101011 110100 11100 1110001000 1110 110100 11111110 111 111011000 11101010 10101111100 101110 1010100 110100 101101001 101101010 1111010110 110 1111 1101010111 1110 101111011110 101110111 1110110 1011110 1111 11110101110101010 111101 1011110100 11011101111110 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; no, victoria, y are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words si, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines victoria is repeated).

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  • summary of La Muerta;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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