This is an analysis of the poem Canción Del Tiempo Y El Espacio that begins with:

El dulce niño pone el sentimiento
entre la pompa de jabón que fía...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XX XXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111000 101100111 1100111001100 111111000 11010111001 110110101100 10110010011 111001001100 111111000 11010110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; el, n, la, de are repeated.

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

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

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

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