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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXX XXcX XXXX XXXX bXbX dXXX dXdX XXaX XXXX Xefgc hfXi Xiaj fcje ikXc hXck hfXk ficX kgXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 100101 10011100 010110 10110111100 0101100 110110 10111010 1111001010000 1010110 1111100 1111100 10010001110 1111100 111110 11110100 11000101011 11011 1101100 1101101 1011111010 1111010 10100100 10100110 1101101010 110110 11001100 11110010 11001011000 11101100 1100110 1101011 11011101100 1110100 1100100 110100 110100110 10 10110 101110 011111 01011100111 110101 0111110 110100 01010100001 001110 1101010 110101 0101010101 010111 1100101 110101 0101000101 111111 011101 100101 101111101 1111101 011010 1001010 11001011001 1011010 1101110 1101001 0101010101 11101010 1010010 0100010 111010101 011101 00100101 1110101 0101000001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; que, el, i are repeated.

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

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