Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Rhymes: Analysis and Structure
Rima XXI
Structure
Externally, it is a text written in verse, consisting of four verses, which are hendecasyllables, enneasíllables, and tetrasyllables. Assonance rhyming pairs, being the odd loose, and its rhyme scheme is 11 – 11 9A – 4a. Internally, it can be divided into two parts:
- From verse 1 to 2: Explains what is happening today.
- From verse 3 to 4: Explains the reason for what happens.
Argument
The poet says that today the earth and the heavens will smile, and the sun reaches the bottom of his heart. He also says he believes in God. All this is said and alleged that his beloved has looked at him.
Topic
The alleged mistress of the poet looks at him, awakening in him great happiness. Form of utterance: It can be seen with narrative description.
Analysis
Together we can observe an anaphora of “today” and it consists of hyperbatons.
Verse by verse we can see:
- In the first verse is a personification, in that the heavens and the earth cannot smile.
- In the second verse is a hyperbole; it is impossible that the sun reaches into the soul.
- In the third verse, there are two “…”. Aposiopesis.
- In the last verse is an exclamation.
Conclusion
Bécquer, the poet, conveys to us the joy of giving life against a number of unusual situations, all because his love thee.
Rima XXIII
Structure
Externally, it is a text written in verse, which is divided into four eight-syllable verses and pentasyllables. Assonance rhyming pairs, being the odd loose, and its rhyme scheme is 8 – May 8 – 8a.
Internally, it can be divided into two parts:
- From verse 1 to 2: It says that would by things.
- From verse 3 to 4: You say you would not know what a kiss is.
Argument
The poet is clear about what I’d give for a look and a smile of his mistress, would give a globe and heaven respectively, and questions that come to take for a kiss.
Topic
The poet would question what a kiss of his beloved is. Form of utterance: We can see the story.
Analysis
Overall, we see an anaphora in the first three verses, and some hyperbaton. Verse by verse we can see:
- In the third verse, we can see an Aposiopesis.
- In the third and fourth verse is an exclamation.
Conclusion
Bécquer, through this poem, makes it clear the love that I feel the poet’s one lady who is not so much as collect valuable thing a kiss from this community.
Rima XXIX
External Structure
Lyrical text consists of 26 white lines divided into three stanzas, schedule 8, 5, 8, 5, 8, 5, 8, 5. Octosyllabic predominate and five syllables.
Internal Structure
It is divided into three parts. V1 of the V5: description of how I figure next to his beloved while both flicking through a book. V9 of the V19: do not know how long until q trancurrió kiss. V20 of the V27: Dante is quoted while telling her I loved q in a simple verse can find a great poem.
Argument
In its affirmative stage of love, Bécquer is recreating the fragment of Dante’s Inferno and ends up kissing his beloved.
Topic
Motive of love so using allusions to Dante.
Form of Utterance
Description, emotive language.
Genre
Lyrical
Analysis
Hyperbaton V7.8, an allusion to Dante.
Conclusion
Rima is observed in the affirmative stage of love and q the author tries to see the beloved than a few words can express many sentimientos.
Rima 30
Structure
Externally is a text written in verse, which consists of nine lines and ten syllables hendecasyllables. Assonance rhyming pairs being the odd loose, and the rhyme scheme is 11 – 11A 11 – 11A 11 – 11A 11 – 10A. Internally is divided into two parts:
- Of 1 to 4: Explain what happened between him and herself.
- From 5 to 9: Explain the consequences of the above.
Rima XXVIII
Rima 38
External Structure
Four short verses that only estmfa confbnnan wia. These verses are metrical structure wia 11A, 10 +1 B, 11C and 6D.
Internal Structure
Lacks a well-defined internal structure.
We could establish a structure with two parties without conclusion.
Verse 1-2: Introduction
3-4: Development
Argument
Short rhyme which targets women wonder where is the love forgotten.
Form of Utterance
Rima narrative
Determination of Issue
It is a unique and precise had forgotten the love and destiny.
Genus and Subgenus
Lyric and Rhyme
Analysis
Two first lines using repetition of words that serve to enhance simple elements. In verse 3, the Dime, makes known to the reader using a convemeional and ironic tone that is reflected in the final question.
Verse 4 retónca use a question mark.
Conclusion
Rima melancholy briefly but precisely where Bécquer concerned about love and the consequences that this leaves.
Rima XXXVIII
Content Map
External Structure
It is a poem composed of eight verses grouped into two stanzas of four lines each. All the verses are heroic verse except the last which consists of five syllables. His rhyme scheme are: 11A 11B 11C 11D 11 – 11C 11D 5b. Not classifiable.
Consonant rhyme and assonance is because after the stressed vowel of the last word in several verses rhyme vowels and other vowels and consonants, the second line rhymes with the eighth to end in-osa and therefore consonant rhyme fourth line rhymes with the fifth in the vocal or-a, then, has assonance rhyme. Scheme has a single variable free verse.
Internal Structure
The introduction is between verses 1-4 and it Bécquer described the attitude of his beloved, the knot is between the verses 5-6, and expresses sentinúento there is no love in it, and in the outcome that is between verses 7-8 the author states that despite its appearance is very beautiful statue.
Plot Summary
The argument is the way that gives precedence Bécquer appearance or beauty of his beloved on her coldness does not correspond to that love. The theme is summarized in the heartbreak and beauty.
Expression Plane
Form of Utterance
The type of narrative and descriptive text.
Gender and Sub-genre
Gender is the lyric, and the genre is the song.
Joint Analysis of the Content and Expression
- Rhetorical question in the first verse (What you tell me?)
- Hyperbole and metaphor in the lines three four; and exaggerating his coldness using hyperbole (“before the feeling of her soul will spring water from the barren rock”) and identifies their coldness with the metaphor “water sprout the barren rock.”
- Metaphors in lines five, six and seven: nest of serpents, fiber responds to love, inanimate statue.
- Aposiopesis in the seventh verse due to the use of ellipses.
Conclusion
The rhyme thirty-nine belongs to the Book of Sparrows, consists of two stanzas with eight lines hendecasyllables (eleven syllables), with its variable rhyme scheme is consonant rhyme. It consists of an introduction which presents the personality of the beloved, the knot in which there is unrequited love Becquer and the coolness of it against this love, and finally, in the denouement, to prevail Becquer beauty of his beloved in front of his flialdad. The text is descriptive and narrative and belongs to the genus and within the lyric to the song. The literary devices used were: metaphor, Aposiopesis, hyperbole and rhetorical question.
XLVIII Rima
Argument
This poem describes how a woman breaks a relationship and he feels hurt by not being able to forget the love he still feels. You can not stop thinking about it and not know how long it takes to forget it and be rid of his feelings for her.
Topic
The pain felt by a man for a breakup.
Structure
External: Poem written in verse, consisting of three quatrains and two seven-syllable heroic verse with rhyme assonance and consonant. His scheme is: 11A, 11B, 11A, 7B, 11C, 11D, 11C, 11D, 11E, 11F, 11E, 7F.
Internal: Rhyme song lyric genre and subgenre cultured. It can be divided into three parts.
- Part 1: verse 1-4, he explains his sorrow over the breakup.
- Part 2: verse 5-8 he admired her a lot but then felt disappointed.
- Part 3: verse 9-12, you can not stop thinking about it.
Form of Utterance
The poet uses the description.
Analysis of Expression and Content
There is a comparison in verse 1-2, which compares the pain of the break with an iron boot pain of a wound.
There is a personification in line 6 where the will gives him the gift of throwing.
There is an identification of sleep and death, after drawing up an exhibition of feeling torn with the reasons: iron, wound and faith.
Conclusion
Emphasizing the identification of sueiío and death, and how to express their painful feelings with the iron, the wound and faith.
Rima LII
Argument
In this rhyme begins 4th series’ final anguish and despair. ” At the beginning of the rhyme tells of nature (sea, wind and clouds) to take him very far from here with his strength, Bécquer implies that he wants to die. At the end of the rhyme explains the reason for his desire to die is núedo to be alone with their pain.
Topic
Medo to loneliness and pain.
Structure
External: Written in verse, composed of 16 verses. Four stanzas of four lines each, the first 3 verses are heroic verse and last verse heptasilaba, assonance rirna 11 -, 11A, 11 -, 7A.
Internal: Paragraph 1 (1-12): Becquer in these verses the nature calls you to take with her.
Paragraph 2 (13-16): At the end of the rhyme, the last stanza, the nature tells why you want to take him, afraid of being alone so he can pass.
Analysis
Personifies the nature giving much force (tidal waves … … gusts of hurricane, storm clouds …) uses hyperbole to imply that it is desperate, rhetorical question at the end of each verse of the 4 verses.
Conclusion
In this verse we see a new phase of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer at this stage he’s sad, desperate and is also a stage of desperation, as can be seen reflected in the rhyme, it also uses (very common in Becquer), two types of stanzas.
Rima LIII
Location
This rhyme is within the fourth block which expresses the desperation and the deep sense of loneliness.
Content Map
External Structure
Lyrical text written in verse. Consisting of 24 lines grouped into six quatrains and a chorus that repeats twice.
In stanzas 1 and 2 is assonance rhyme in every verse except in the third verse that is loose. In the third and sixth stanza rhyme, assonance is present in all the verses. In the fourth stanza, assonance rhyme verses 2, 3 and 4 and verse 1 is loose. And in the fifth stanza, the lines rhyme pairs assonance and rhyme verses are also odd assonance.
Hendecasyllables lines predominate (11A1-11A6a) and therefore the structure
corresponds to a silva.
Internal Structure
the structure is:
- Introduction: from verse 5 to 8 and 13 to 16 (remember moments that were with her).
- Node: verse 1 to 4, from 9 to 12 and from 17 to 20 (explains his life without his beloved).
- Outcome: verse 21 to 24 (reflection of the author.)
Summary
Becher remembers those moments spent with his beloved and not like when the swallows return restrained beauty of it and watched the joy of it and swallows learned their names or when watching the drops of dew as if they were tears.
It also explains the return moments, which will be when the swallows fly to the balcony and hang their nests and call to the wing to the crystals, when the garden honeysuckle climb the wall and then open their flowers and when they return Ardent words do awaken the heart of the beloved.
Finally, the poet says that no one will want it as he wished
Topic
The disappointment in love.
Map of the Expression
Form of Utterance
Narrative (tells about events prior to and following his affair with his mistress) and description (describes the poet kneeling, absorbed and silent, the bushy honeysuckle, flowers).
Gender
Lyric
Subgenus
Song.
Plano Whole Content and Expression
- 1st verse: Verse 2: hyperbaton because it alters the order of words.
Verse 4: hyperbaton because it alters the order of words.
- 2nd verse: Verse 2: hyperbaton because it alters the order of words.
Verse 3: aposlopesis interrupting the speech with ellipses. Verse 4: aposlopesis interrupting the speech with ellipses.
- 3rd verse: Verse 2: hyperbaton nuisance because there are logical words.
Verse 4: hyperbaton because it alters the sequence of words.
- 4th verse: Verse 3: comparison because it compares the drops with the tears of the day and there aposlopesis because it interrupts the speech with ellipses.
Verse 4: Aposiopesis because it interrupted the speech with points
suspension.
- 5th verse: Verse 2: hyperbaton because it alters the sequence of words.
Verse 4: impersonation: it attributes as a human quality is to awaken the heart.
- 6 Th verse: Verse 1: polysyndeton because it repeats the links between words in a list and also unnecessary, because accumulating words to describe a situation.
Verse 2: comparison because it relates to himself when he is kneeling with a person who is worshiping God on the altar.
Verse 3: Aposiopesis because it interrupted the speech with ellipses.
Verse 4: Aposiopesis because it interrupted the speech with ellipses.
Conclusion
Becher through literary devices, the use of the structure and rhyme assonance has been able to express the heartbreak he suffered.
My personal opinion is that it is a rhyme in which he mixed moments in which the poet and his lover were together which he remembers with a certain feeling of nostalgia. And other times they came back when he suffered the disappointment.
But personally, what most caught my attention is the last stanza where he says with a confidence that nobody will want it as I wanted him accompanied by the comparison of absorbed poet with someone kneeling and praying to God before the altar.
Rima LVI
Argument
Here the author says that the little time he has left to live I’d give to know what your lover has gone around saying Et touch it touch it want to know what she thought of him.
Topic
The issue is how the departure of love, life …, to rhyme but it is the últirna this stage of the glare of the Arnor.
Structure
External: Written in verse, composed of eight verses. Two stanzas of four lines each, loose verses, the first 2 verses hendecasyllables 3rd hexasyllabic, 4th pentasyllable, in the second stanza the 5th verse tridecasílabos, the 6th decasyllablc, 7th heptasyllabic and 8th syllables.
Internal: In the first stanza (1-4) says he has little of life and would like to know what your loved one has been saying about him out there, and the 2nd (5-8) he would like to know what the author thinks his beloved.
Analysis
Antithesis (life threatening), anaphora (the two last lines of stanzas two begin the same).
Conclusion
This rhyme is the latest stage of love, she does as a kind of saying farewell to his beloved would like to know what you say around him and what he thinks of him.
Rima LIX
Location
Rima fifty-nine that corresponds to the number seventeen in the Book of Sparrows released in 1871. In the rhyme-LXXVI LII main theme is old age and experience.
Content Map
External Structure
three stanzas of eight lines each, 24 verses in total, alternating seven-syllable and heroic verse. Schematic: 7 – 7a 7c 7d 7e 7f 11B 4g
7f November 7 – 5h 7d 7e 7f 4g 7 – 11 7c – 7e 7d 7h 11 – 11g. It has a rhyme and Silva.
Internal Structure
The poem has no tripartite structure, the poem itself is a great introduction and the last stanza is the conclusion.
Plot Summary
The argument is that the author knows the secret cause of the languor of the girl because he already has lived in an earlier era.
The theme is summed up in two words: Innocence (by her) and experimentation (by author).
Expression Plane
Form of Utterance
This text text
Genus and Subgenus
Gender is the lyrics and the genre is a song.
Joint Analysis of the Content and Expression
- Hyperbaton in the first stanza to emphasize in the first and second verses, “I know which is the subject of your sighs,” and especially in the second stanza in verse nine and ten “as in a book that I can shut your front read “and in the third stanza in the penultimate and last lines in” as much and anything you feel you know, I do not feel it anymore, all I know.”
- Rhetorical question: When using “Do you laugh …?” in verse five, thirteen, and twenty.
- Aposiopesis: using ellipsis in: “Do you laugh …?
Antithesis: “I know why you smile and cry” at a time and can also be antithetical to the contrast that occurs in the penultimate and last verse: “You feel a lot and know nothing, I do not feel it anymore, all I know.”
- Comparison and metaphor in” like a book that I can shut your face reading?”
- Anaphora: the repetition at the beginning of each verse “I know”
Conclusion
Rima fifty-nine and number seventeen in the Book of Sparrows. Silva is a composite of three stanzas of eight lines each of which are seven-syllable lines and heroic verse with rhyme. It is a great introduction that conclusion is the last stanza.
Rima LXVIII
Location
It is within the fourth group which expresses the despair and deep sense of loneliness.
Content Map
External Structure
Lyrical text written in verse. It consists of 12 verses divided into three quatrains.
Verses assonance rhyme pairs, however the odd lines are loose. Seven-syllable lines predominate and heroic verse (7a-7b-11A-11B). This structure corresponds to a silva.
Internal Structure
Becher has divided the rhyme:
- Introduction: from verse 1 to 4 (explains the anguish of the dream unknown).
- Node: verse 5 to 8 (explanation of the sensations caused by sleep).
- Outcome: verse 9 to 12 (reflection of the author.)
Summary
The protagonist of rhyme wake up in the morning wondering what he had dreamed the night before because the anguish of him even dream lasted.
When he woke up the pillow wet saw for the first time he noticed that his soul was swelled and caused him bitter pleasure.
The protagonist says that the dream must be very sad because mourn him but still says that he still feels there are tears and joy.
Topic
The sadness of the dream.
Expression Plane
Form of Utterance
Narration because it narrates the events that happen to the poet when he wakes in the morning. And description because it describes the sensations produced by sleep (the wet pillow and felt a bitter pleasure to swell the soul).
Gender
Lyric
Subgenre
Song.
Map Set of Content and Expression
- 1st verse: Verse 3: hyperbaton because there is an alteration in the order of words.
Verse 4: hyperbaton because there is a disruption of the words.
- 2nd verse: Verse 4: antithesis because it relates the words bitter and pleasure.
- 3 Rd verse: Verse 1: hyperbaton because it alters the order of words.
Verse 2: hyperbaton because it alters the order of words.
Verse 3: antithesis because it relates the words sadness and joy.
Conclusion
This fear made by the dream was refined by seven-syllable lines and hendecasyllables assonantal rhyme found in some lines, resources used as the antithesis of words or hyperbaton. All this has been structured into introduction, middle and end.
Personally, it’s one of rini I really liked it because it describes the anxiety produced by the dream of the night previous to which the content is unknown and I liked it because it reflected the unhappiness which produces reality and happiness him with the tears and so states that still tears left to mourn them.
LXXV RIMA
External Structure
Hendecasyllables and seven-syllable verses (1 1 1 1 Rima assonance. 20 verses.
Internal Structure
- Introduction: Line numbers 1 through 8.
- Development: Line number 9 to 16.
- Outcome: From line number 17 to 20.
Argument
Becquer wants to represent the spirit first shows itself in our bodies while we sleep. Then, through a number of resources you want to display a number of unknowns about the human being. Is indecision, insecurity and ignorance to that which is human life.
Determination of Issue
Unknowns of the human being to life, death and those around us. What is life?
Expression Plane
- Lyric.
- Resources:
- Metaphor.
- Anaphora.
- Personification
- Polysyndeton.
period because his love thee