This is an analysis of the poem En El Niagara that begins with:

AhÌ est·s otra vez. . . ! El mismo hechizo
Que aÒos ha conocÌ, monstruo de gracia, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXXXX XaacXXXXXXdXaXXXXXXXXXa aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXeXXXX bXXXXXXXXXbXbXXaXXXXXaXX XaaXXfXXXXbXXXXb fXXfXeX XXaXaX XXXXXXXXXaXXXXX XXXXXeXXXXaXXXdXaXXXXXXXXXXcbXXXaXXdXXXXXXbXb fXXXXaaXXX XXXdXXXXXXfb XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXbXXXXXX XXXXXaXaXXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,23,17,14,24,16,7,6,15,45,10,12,9,6,10,14,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110100 11111010010 10100010110 101100 110101111100 111110010 1110011110 0100100110 100111100100 1101100100 11101110 1110010010 1100100110010 11000101000 11110010100100 1100001111 101100011100 10100011010 10100110110 0111010001011 1101101101000 1010001011010 110001101010 1100010100 111111010 011000011100 1100100101100 1100011011110 10000110110 10110011111 10010101100 110001000110 110100111110 11001011001 0100100101001 1000111101000 01110100 11 1110010111 110011111001 0111101001011 0111110011010 0101110001110 1010010 0100010010 110001100110 100111000100 10110010110 10001000110 10010100100 110001000100 1001101000010 11111010 1100011100 11001100011000 10110000110 110011110111000 110001100 1101111111 11001001111100 010100111100 110111010110 10101101100 0111010110 0100110100 11100010000 110100011100 110001101100 110001011100 100110010000 0100110010000 1100011101000 111101101100 1100100110 111010011110 101100100111110 1111100100010 10111010001101 1100001111010 11000011010 101110100010 11100011000 0111110110 111101000 11100011110 1011000111 111010011000110 101011001010 1100011110010 0101001000110 1101111000 01011011001 11110101101 011001110100 100100011100 110000101101 11100100100 011000010110 1101000011010 111100101000 01011011000 101101110 111101110110 1010111100101 111110110100 1011010111000 11111010001101 11100101110 10110001010 1001000 11011000100110 10111001000 1001011000010 1111101111100 111101010010 1100100110000 110011100 10111010010 0100100010010 10010111101 10100100010 100111001 101001101000 110011110011000 1101111100 101101110010 11001011100110 101101100100 1111011110 01100011100100 11101011000111 1101001101100 111010001110 1100101011000 110110100110 1011100 1100001101 1010110001100 111010 01000001000 110100101100 1101000110110 110100001111 111111001010 1101100010111 11001100011 100111110110 100110 11011110 111001001111 10100110011 11011010100 10001010010 110110100010 1001001100 10100010100100 01011101011100 100110000100 1100010001 11010010011110 10001001010 110010110010 01100010110 101000010110 01100100001 100011110010 111001101010 111110010010 110111001100 1000010111100 111010011000 1100111000100 0110101011000 100110101110 11000 010011100010 11111 11000011110 11111010010110 111000100 001011111010 1011100010 111001011110 11100100010 11010011100 111001100100 101101101010 110001111110 11100101111101110 1010110111110 0110101010100 1110011110110 1010011100 01110100 11 10111011100 11011100111 10100110111110 10101100100 11111011001 1100111110 101101100100 1110001100 1001101100 111110110 1100001100 110110011101 1010100010 10111101110 100111001110 100101111100 10110111110 11100000110 1001110110 011111100 100110010000 11101100110 100101100 1010011101000 111100 101101010110 100110011010 110001011100 1101011000 1100100011 101101001010 10110100010 0111110000 10011001110 11001010011000 110011010110 110111011100 11011100 1101110011000 11101011010 11001100 110100010011 110010100 01001001100 111011001000 10011011001 111011001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1641
  • Amount of lines: 258
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, del, de, el, al, que, y, un, ni, du, rme, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, llegue, y, siempre, mi are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spid 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 En El Niagara;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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