Analysis of La Mano

Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)



Creí sentir una soga
y dijo un hermano,
pese no estar en boga,
que era la mano
que mi vida se arroga.


Scheme ABABA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11101 1111 11111 110110 111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 102
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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