This is an analysis of the poem La Pobre Viejecita that begins with:
Érase una viejecita
Sin nadita que comer ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXa XXcX XdXX XXXX caXX XeXX XdXX XXXd XXXX XaXe XXXX XbbX XXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000 1100110 1011010 1010111 101010 110111 11111000 1101110 11010110 111001110 10010101 111111111 111100 1011111 110101110 010110 10101110 101011 11001100 1101100 110101101 11001110 1101010 10101101 11011000 10110111 10111010 10110110 111011010 1100011 101001000 10001100 11011000 110110 1010011 1010111 101111100 1010110 10001110 10001100 10001010 1000010 1110100 101111001 1110110100 110001011 1110010 101101 11011000 110111 110101010 10111110 1011110100 1100100 1111000101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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, mil, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word y is repeated.
The author used the same word y 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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