This is an analysis of the poem Renacuajo that begins with:

El hijo de rana, Rinrín renacuajo
Salió esta mañana muy tieso y muy majo...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbb XXXX XXXX aXXb XXXX Xaaa XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011000 1010101101110 110101000110 0101000110010 100110010111 10111101100111 111010011100 10100111010100 10001001100 111000111000 01010011001 1010101110 11111010011 111001001011 011011011110 110010101001 1001110010010 1010110010001 111001101110110 111001111000 1011101010010 11101110 1110111001110 111011100 1010000111 100100100100 101100110010 101100111100 1101101101100 1110010101010 110100010110 101101001100 11101011010 10100011100 11001101010 011110100110 110111110110 11010011010 11010111100 111001010 11111011010 0111101101110 1100000101100 1110101110010 11001101101100 11110010101100 1101001101100 110101011100 111111001101 11111100011110 11100001111 11100111010 11110011101 11111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • 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; y, el, la 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.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Renacuajo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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