Analysis of "Rima LIII" by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Vol/ve/rán/ las/ os/cu/ras/ go/lon/dri/nas/= 11 sílabas

in/ your/ balcony/ their/ nests/ to/ hang,/= 11 syllables (10 + 1)

again with the to his crystals

they will call

For those that the flight restrained = 11 syllables

your/her/my/daughter to/con/template,/= 11 syllables (10 + 1)

Those who learned our names... = 11 syllables

They will not return!

Will the stupid mothers come back?

of/ your/ garden/ the/ tiles/ to heat,/= 11 syllables (10 + 1)

And once again in the afternoon, more beautiful.

they will open

But those, squared by rocky = 11 syllables

we will tremble

I will write the poems of the day... = 11 syllables

They won't come back!

I will fly from love in your ears

the/words/are/singing;/= 11 syllables (10 + 1)

your/ co/ra/zón/ of/ its/ pro/found/ dream/= 11 syllables

maybe it will awaken.

Pe/ro/ mu/do/ and ab/sor/to and/ de/ ro/di/llas/= 11 syllables

How/ do/ I/ adore/ God/ before/ his altar,/= 11 syllables (10 + 1)

I have loved you;... / I will despise you,

Yes... they won't stay!

Metric and rhyme. Complete the following table:

Número versos | 24 |
Número de estrofas | 6 |
Measure of major verse | Hendecasyllables |
Measure of the verses of artemenor | Heptasyllabic |
Type of rhyme | Assonant rhyme in the even lines, leaving the odd lines free or loose |
Esquema métrico del poema (números y letras) | 11-, 10+1 A, 11-, 6+1 a, 11-, 10+1 A, 11-
,6+1 a, 11-, 10+1 A, 11-, 6+1 a, 11-, 10+1 A, 11-, 6+1 a, 11-, 10+1 A, 11-, 6+1 a, 11-, 10+1
A, 12-1-, 6+1 a.

In this poem, all the characteristics of romanticism are present. The lover resorts to
with desperation, jealousy, sadness, and anguish at the memory of lost love, nothing in the world is
sufficient to describe his desolation, the swallows, the honeysuckles, the burning words of
Love, everything can be reborn, except for lost love and the fatality that will make the reunion impossible.
He only has the hedonistic consolation of being sure that no one will be able to love like he has.
capable

LITERARY RESOURCES USED:

METRIC
It is a lyrical poem of romantic content, composed of six stanzas, with assonance rhyme.
in the even verses.

GRAMMATICAL STYLE RESOURCES

Hyperbaton - It is the alteration of the logical order of the words in a sentence.

The dark swallows will return, to hang the nests on your balcony.

Epithets.- Adjectives that highlight the quality of a noun that is sufficiently clear.
THE DARK SWALLOWS.

Anaphora.- Repetition of one or more words at the beginning of several verses.

The dark swallows will return.
THE STUPID MOTHER SELVAGES WILL RETURN.

Polysyndeton.- Use of more conjunctions than necessary.

BUT MUTE AND ABSORBED AND ON MY KNEES.

LITERARY RESOURCES BASED ON MEANING.

Metaphor.- It consists of naming one thing by the name of another

THE DROPS ARE COMPARED TO THE TEARS OF THE DAY.

Personification - Attribution of human qualities to animated or inanimate beings.

The swallows that learned our names.

THE HONEYSUCKLES THAT CLIMB WALLS.
Grammatical signs.

Use of commas to facilitate the intonation and duration of a divided phrase

metrically in two verses
Use of exclamatory phrases to emphasize strength.
Use of ellipsis to create tension.

Rhymes and Legends

Bécquer published most of his legends in an irregular manner, in the form of a serial or novel.
deliveries, over a period of 54 years, from 1858 to 1864, in various Madrid newspapers of the
era, such as the great centrist Spanish newspaper El Contemporáneo, where he worked
as a writer, The Chronicle of Both Worlds and The America. That type of dissemination conditioned
to a great extent the theme and the timing of publication of each one. The Mount of the
Ánimasse was published shortly before All Saints' Day, Master Pérez, the organist, in
Christmas, and the Miserere, during Holy Week. Additionally, the publication of some of them in
various deliveries, such as Rayo de Luna, caused its structure to vary a bit to maintain the
intrigue throughout the story. After his death in 1870, his friends published them in a
edition that included the Rhymes, which were initially going to be funded by one of the
ministers of the moment,Luis González Bravo,ofLiberal [Link] a prologue by Rodríguez
Correa, the work was published in two volumes under the title of Rhymes and Legends, in 1871, for
help the widow and her children financially. In successive editions, it would be expanded.
selection, that starting from the fifth the work will consist of three volumes. Currently, it
You can find different versions of Rimas and Legends, depending on the publisher and the
editorial editions, in which the chosen works vary.