This is an analysis of the poem Sinfonia En Gris Mayor (Symphony In Gray Major) that begins with:
El mar como un vasto cristal azogado
refleja la lámina de un cielo de zinc; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXXbcdceXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXX f fabg hXgh biXbg bjXe kbjd agXX jkda ciXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,1,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101000 100110011001 10010001010 110100101 11101100101100 1100100100110 1100101001110 1000100011101 11110110111010 1001110010 10011101001110 0111000100111110 01101001001 10101101001110 11001011110 110100110110 0110100111001 11001000010110 111010111010 1101001110100 1110010111001 11001101101100 1101011001001 10101101100 1001111010110 110110110111 11011011011 101111101000 11010010011 110110110100 100111010010 1110100111100 1110101011111 1000110 0110110010 010110101 1010111 10101111 011010110 01100110010 011010001 1001101010 011111010 1010101 1010101001 0010100010 00110101 0110101001 001011101 011100101 1111001001 01011101 1110101 010101011 01010101 01010111 0111011101 111111010 01110111 01000100111 10101011 00101010111 1101000101 010001001010 110111001 1010110010011 1010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, del, el, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words el, los, his are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sinfonia En Gris Mayor (Symphony In Gray Major);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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