This is an analysis of the poem Puedo Escribir that begins with:

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo: 'La noche está estrellada,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XX X XX aX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011010010101 1001100111001000 11001001100110 110011101110110 1010011010010101 1111010101000110 1111101010001110110 11001010101101000 101100101100011000 10001100101101010 1010011010010101 101111010111100 111100100100110 111011101011011000 1010011101100100 1110010001101100100 10110011010100110 1101111001100100 101010001010110 1100001101101100100 1101111011010000 100101001110110 1111011010100011 111001101010111000 01010001010100110 1111110101101000 111101101011110 1110110111101100 11101010001110110 1101111001100100 1100111000010110110 11000111000010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; noche, la, mi, los, de, es are repeated.

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  • summary of Puedo Escribir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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