This is an analysis of the poem Pastorcita that begins with:
Pastorcita perdió sus ovejas
¡y quién sabe por dónde andarán! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101100 1111110 111001100110 110101101 1111011110 110011010101 10001110100 110111110 111001111101000 1100111010 11001011110 1101101110 101001000 1110101111 11111111101000 1100111101 111000101000 11110111111 10100110110 10101011 101100101010 10000101 10110111010 1101101001111 11100111111 1101010100 1100100100 10101100 111000101000 111010101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; n, y are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word y is repeated.
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