This is an analysis of the poem Cantos De Vida Y Esperanza that begins with:

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Yo soy aquel que ayer no más decía...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXb cccX XccX XXXX XXbX bXXX XXXc cXXa XXXX XbXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX XcXX cXXc XXXX XcXc ccXc XXXc cXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11101101110 110101110100 110111010 110100011110 11101101 10010101010 1101111011 0101101110 11101011011100 111001010000 11011110100 1101010001000 1101011100 1100110011 11011101100 1010001000 101101111100 1100110110 101000111110 1111110110 1111111010010 11101110110 110101000110 10101001000 110101100100 110001100110 10101110010 1011001100 1001001010010 10100010100 100100101000 011000110100 11001011100110 01000101000 11000101110 11100010100 1111110110 10110010010 11101010010 1110010111 10110101000 11011001000 111000110100 1010010000010 1010101010010 1101001110 111001110000 111101001111 1101011100 1100100110 111010011010 1111100110100 101100111100 111011111110 10110001000 11101111100 1111001011100 11101001101 1110101111000 1001010011 11000101010 11101001101 100110110 01100101100 111010011100 1000110100 011001011100 11101011100 101111100 111011111010 10100110100 1001011000 100101101000 11101111010 100010101110 1110110111 111101101110 111011110110 110010110010 11011001110 110110111100 1000101110 1101001100100 111101110 10111011010 0110100101000 11101011100 10111100110 111011001110 11101000100 1100100111100 111000111110 11011001110 0100101101110 11011100111 11101011010 1111001011010 1101101011010 11100110000 110010010010 11001011110 1110010100 101101010110 1010101110110 11010111010 110101101100 110011010110 11101101110 110011110011 111001001011100 1101101011 11011100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; de, o, el, due, y, muy, hora, la, sin, sagrada, selva, oh, en, as, una are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words y, hora, pas are repeated.

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  • summary of Cantos De Vida Y Esperanza;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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