This is an analysis of the poem Canto De Esperanza (With English Translation) that begins with:

Un gran vuelo de cuervos mancha el azul celeste.
Un soplo milenario trae amagos de peste....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXa XXX XXX XXb XXc bXXXXX XXX d X ecee fXf aaaa aaa aXaXa Xede eg ggXeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,6,3,1,1,4,3,4,3,5,4,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101011001 1101000110001 111000110111001 111001100001000 111100100110011110 1101001100011 11001100101100 1110010010000 11111100110110 10001001000110 11100101100011100 111010011010110 11100011101100 1010110011111110 11010111100001 10101111000110 11010101110000 1010010011010100 11101011000110 1110010011001000 101101111100 11100101111000 1111100110000 110110011000 10010 101 1001110010001 011111001001 1 010101010111111 1100010111101 1111110110101 1101110100101 0101010010101 0101010101101 100101011011 1 1000010010001 11100100100100 0001110010111 1111110010111 1111010010110 1 111111011010 1 100111110100 11110101111000 110101001001 11 110111001011 1 01001011110001 1111010111101 101111000100111 11010100010011 1110110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; el, del, de, la, y, n, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, v, the are repeated.

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  • summary of Canto De Esperanza (With English Translation);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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