This is an analysis of the poem A Margarita Debayle (To Margarita Debayle) that begins with:

Margarita, está linda la mar,
y el viento ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX bXcX Xd be XXXf XXba Xedd babX Xgbh XXXX XgXX XXcX XXXX XiXX XfXX XdXj XXXX XXXa bXba aXXX XXXX X dIdikiki edej Xili jaja Xgjg jidi aeae aaab mnmn iaia mama eoXo klel lmlm jljl pkme lkle jgjg dIdi eiki a Adld qaka rlhl kiji qaja Xglg qede jea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011011 1110 10100100100 110 11101010010 1100 101011010 110 11011110 101000100 10101011 111001000 11001000 111001 1101010001010 10101010101 1011100 1101101000 110010100 11101010 11010100 1001100 111011010 10101101 01001000 111001001 10101010 101011 11111110 101101111 010110110 1110100 110010100 1110111 1110111010 110011 101001010 011011 1110010100 111100 1111011110 111001111 11101110 110001111 1100110 11010110 101011101 01101000 1111011110 111011110 11001100 111110100 1110110100 1111111 11111011110 101110111 111011000 11001010 111011100 11000100 110011100 1111101 10100100 100111 11011110 1010010 111101111 11101011 11110100 1101100 10001000 01010011 11000110 1111100 111011110 10101011 101010111 1110 10100100100 1100 1110011010 1011101000 111111010 110 0101010 10101100010 111 010100010 101 0110010 11111 110100010 111 01111101 0010010 1010101 11010100 01110100 1010101 10010111 01110011 11101010 11001001 01110100 01110101 0110100 0011011 1010001 0100101 11001010 10010011 01011100 1010111 101110111 01010101 11010111 11010011 110110101 10011101 11001111 010010010 10111111 00110001 1110111 0110011 1011011 111101 11011101 1111111 1101011 00110001 11011101 011100011 110101101 011111 110101011 1110111 011111010 11111111 101010111 111111001 1010100 011101010 011010101 00111110 111111010 101011001 011101001 1101101 1111110 11111010 001011110 1010101 010101010 00101100 11010100 01110101 011100010 0110101 11110111 010101001 1001010010 111 011111010 101 11011110 110111 001011010 111 010101 10100111 10010 0110101 01010 01101010 1111 1110011010 1111 11101011 00100101 110000101 10111101 1010010010 10100101 1011011010 11011011 11001010 101001001 1110010010 11001011 0011010010 11001101 010010010 010010101 011010010 1111101 11011110 1111111 11101010 100111001 010111111 001001011 111101110 11100101 1011111101 01100101 1111100111 0010101 1111100101 0010111 101110110 11111101 11011110 1100111 0101111 1111101 110101111 1010111 0111110 1010111 111111101 0100101 1111110 111111 010100101 11101001 101011010 1100111 111100101 00111100 01011110 10101001 111100100 0101111 11101110 11011011 1100100101 1111101 01110010 1110111 110100111 1100101 101001011 00100101 10100100101 0010010101 10100111 0101 1101010 1111 11100110 1110111 010100111 0110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 64
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 258
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; un, la, una, cortan, te, y, of, your, and, she, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, cortan, and, she, 'i are repeated.

    The author used the same words y, a, but, she, and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    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 A Margarita Debayle (To Margarita Debayle);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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