This is an analysis of the poem Oracion Por Antonio Machado (With English Translation) that begins with:

Oracion por Antonio Machado
Misterioso y silencioso...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXXXXXXbcXXXXdXXXXXX e a bbffXXbXggggccddhhbaXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,1,1,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100010 100011000 10101101 11010101100 110011101 1010010110 010010100 111011000 10111110 1010101100 10100101 10100101 10100011 10001000 11011001 11110000110 11101110 100110100 101001001 1001110100 1111001 10101000110 1001011 10010 0100010 1010101 11011101 0110101 1110101 111011101 01001100 11011111 0110100 01110111 1100100101 0011100 11101111 111101001 1110001 0100111110 0001001010 0101101101 11010011 110011111 1101110100 1111011 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.

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