This is an analysis of the poem Elegía De Un Azul Imposible that begins with:
¡Oh sombra vaga, oh sombra de mi primera novia!
Era como el convólvulo —la flor de los crepúsculos,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXX X XXaXXXb cbXXXXaX XXaX cX aXXXXXcXXXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,7,8,4,2,12,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011001100100 101011001101100 110101111000101000 101010000100110 100101101010010 1101010111100100 11100101100 111000100111 111010010 11001001110111 1101010 11010100 1001101011101 01010001010101010 10011101111011 1111010100100 1111010101000100 110111100 110100101100100 10100100 1101011101000111010 111001101000 11100111001100 10111110001000010 110000110 10110110110 1111101000101100 111101010101010 1001010110100 1001001000 100100 110011001011 11110101011110 110111101010 1111001110101 1101010011100 111010100010 101011111 1110110111100100 110110011100 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, y, la, el are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words su, y, las are repeated.
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