Sonnet Xxvii: Naked You Are As Simple As One Of Your Hands by Pablo Neruda: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxvii: Naked You Are As Simple As One Of Your Hands that begins with:

Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,
Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX XXXX acbXaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10111011011 11010101 111001000 1011101010101 10111101010 11111011 101110110 11000101 10111011011 1101010101 1101001011 1010110010101 111111101 101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, naked, in, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word naked is repeated.

    The author used the same word naked at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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