This is an analysis of the poem Soneto Xvii that begins with:
No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101101001100 11001001100110 1101011101010100 1000101101110 110101101110110 1001100011010011 110011011001110 1100001011000110 1101101110101 110100011001100 111011101010100 10101101111110 1101110111011 11011110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; de, la, ni, te, amo are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words te, tan are repeated.
The author used the same word te at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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