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

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¡Silencio, los lebreles...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXX XXXXXX X aXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa aXaX XaXXXXXX X XXXXXX XaXa XXXX aXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,1,6,4,4,8,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1001100 0110100 110001010010 111000111100 1110110 10100110100110 10001001100 11010001000 1100011010 1101111011100 11011100 10100110100110 1 11100111010 0110110100 100110110010 111001100 1010011 11100100 10111010100 10100110 1010100111100 01010010101100 110001001000 11110100 1001001010010 1011001110100 10101101100 1011110010 100101100 10010110110 11110000110 0111101101010 1111100110 1100011001011110 011111110110 100110111101100 1100100 10101001110 10011100100 1111100010 111001001010 101110100 11010010000 01111001110100 1 1100111110 10110011011000 10100100111100 01100101111010 101011100100 1011101110100 110100111110 101001110110 100111100011100 1011101001110 1111001101000 111110111000 011010011010 11011100100 1001110101110 10111101000 111011110110 1010001000 10010011100 111111011000 1101110110 1100110010 10111001011 11100100010 10111101001 01001011000 1111011010 1001011001000 101111111010 110111011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; de, acaso, la, su are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word dicha at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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