This is an analysis of the poem Los Tres Reyes Magos (With English Translation) that begins with:

-O soy Gaspar. Aquí traigo el incienso.
Vengo a decir: La vida es pura y bella....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXa b c dccd ebbe fggf ehhe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101100 10010110110110 10101101100 101111100110 111011001010 1010111111 1101111110 11110111000 1100101101000 11010111111 10111101010 11011100011 1010110010 1011010110101100 111011111 1110100110 10010 0111 1101010011 0100011111 1111010101 1110110111 11001011111 101100101 0101000111 1101010101 1101001101 01011111101 1101111101 0101010101 10001010011 1101111001 10011010111 1011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; la, el, y, and, of, i, has are repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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