This is an analysis of the poem Soneto A Cervantes (With English Translation) that begins with:

Horas de pesadumbre y de tristeza
paso en mi soledad. Pero Cervantes...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXX XXX b a acca acXX adaXbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010100 10111110010 110111001100 1010101100 111101110000 10011001010100 011100 11011001110 0010100101010 101010101000 10100110 1011100 11100110100 110010001100 10010 0101010 0111010100 1101010001 0101111111 1111010100 1100110001 1111110111 110100101000 101111100 1111011100 1101000101 1001011111 01010111001 1001010101 1100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; y is repeated.

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

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