This is an analysis of the poem Deciamos Ayer that begins with:
Como Fray Luis tras de su largo encierro
«Decíamos ayer...» también digamos....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa bXXX cXXX XXdX XXbX XXbX XXXX XXXa XbXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XbXX bbXX bXbX XcXX XeXe XXXX XXXX XXXc XbXb XXXa XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb bbXX XXcc XXbX aXXa XXXX bXbX XdXX XcXX XXXa Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101110100 1001010100 110011110110 11001101100 110110011 100001000100 1101011001 10010001010 100010001010 01011010010110 111010101100 1110110100 100011011110 0110100100110 11101101000 10011110010 1000110110100 01010001110 110001100111 11101110 1111101001110 1110010111 10110111010 1101110110 101110011001 111100100 1011111110 11001011000 11101011100 1001001010 11011101110 110110001100 111111000 11101000110 10010011000100 110011100010 11001001100 10000110100110 11001001100 111001011000 1100110100 10000110110 0101100011000 01010110100 10011101010 01001001101 10100001000 1001001001000 1111001101100 111111010000 111100110010100 1101010110 1010010100 10001010000 1111000010 10110001000 100100101100 100011010010 1111110101000 110001011010 101001100010 0110001010 1010110101100 110010000110 1101101100110 101111111100 1100011000010 1101001100110 11011010100 11000111100110 10111101110 1111000101110 11010101001 101100011010 1001101000010 01010110010 110110010100 101001010010 1001000111100 101110111000 1010110110100 111101100010 1000111001100 1011110100 1111101100 110010000100 11100100111100 110011110101010 10010000110 110100111010 11100101110 111111101110 100110101100 010001010100100 101100011000 1000101011 101110010110 11001001101 11110010110 111011000100 101010101100 111010110100 0101011001100 111110111100 1011101100010 110010011100 110111011100 10110001000 1111100111100 11001100100 111000100 011000010 110101010110 1010001110 010101011100 1101111100100 110101111100 1101011010 110101101011100 1110000110 111101100010 1100101000010 1010111111100 11000100100 101111011011010 101011001100 11001111000110 1001011001010 1111010100 1001001100100 111011101110 1101010010100 1100111010 101101011000 11011111000 111011110110 1101101100 100111001100 101011100010 11001101110 1100111110 11101101111 10100101011110 111000101010 10111100010 101000101100011 1110011010110 1100110110100 110011010110100 1001100010 1011000100110 110110110100100 111011101110 1110101101010 1111110110100 1011111010110 11001111100 101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 158
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, el, de, y, nos, en, la, una are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words y, la are repeated.
The author used the same words olvidemos, mi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.
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