This is an analysis of Gacela Of Unforseen Love by Federico García Lorca.

No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabc XbXd XedX Xecc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101001 001010011 111111110 0101010111 010101010101 0010010110 1111101 11100001 011011011 101101 11011011 010010111000 100010001001100 11001011 11011011 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of, my, your

Anaphora

a

Anadiplosis

siempre