This is an analysis of Caracol (A Shell) by Ruben Dario.
En la playa he encontrado un caracol de oro
macizo y recamado de las perlas más finas;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XbXa XXX XXX c cdXdcebebbcffc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,1,14,
- Metre: 1110110001100010 10011000011110110 0100111001110100 10111110110110 110001101100100 111000110011110010 01000110111110010 11100111111100010 1111100110100 11110010101110 101001101101 11011001011100100 111001011100010 110011010110 01 1101010101 1010010101 0101000101 11010010111 1100110101 1101011001 1100110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010101011 1011111111 01111001001 1101001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
un, y, to
Anaphora
y
Epiphora
shell