This is an analysis of the poem El Gato Bandido that begins with:

Michín dijo a su mamá:
'Voy a volverme Pateta,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXXXXXXccXXXXXXcXXXXbXdXXdbXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXbcXXXXaXXXXXXXed dXXXXXXXbXXXXccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011111 1010100 111010001110 111010 10110001 101100110 100110111 0011101 1101110 10111 1011010 011011010 110111110 1010101 1011010 1001101100 110110 111100110 10100110 10010110 10001111000 10001100 110010100 1110011011100 11101110 1010011 111010010 1100110 110101100 110100 10001110 11010111100 1000101010 11101110 1101111000 110101011 101101100 11011100 110111000 101100 100100101 011011000 1101011000 1101100 1000010 100010100 1111010 111010111 11001 111100110 10010110 10010100 11000110 10001100 101101010 110110111 10111010 0110110 10111100 100101110 1110100 1101100 1111101000 10100111 1 111011110 110001000 11001000 111101010 11011010 10110000 10111000 1101111100 100101010 11101100 10011100 11001100 10111101 1101110 1100110 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1026
  • Average number of words per stanza: 207
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; y, el, ', n are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.

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  • summary of El Gato Bandido;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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