This is an analysis of the poem O Soldado Espanhol that begins with:
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O céu era azul, tão meigo e tão brando, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXXX XXXc XdXX XcXXXc XeXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXc XXXXXX cXXXXe XFXXXF bXXX X bXXX ccXc XXXA XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXg XXXA XXXX X XbXb XXXd XXXX XXXX XccXXXXXXbXXc X CXXX XXXX XXXX XXXd XXCX a XbXX cfXX XXXc XXXX XbXX XbXX XXXX cXXX XcXX XXXX Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,13,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,9,9,13,7,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110100101010 1010100101111100 1011000111000 1101011111000 1110101111000 10011010100 1010100101111100 01110011110 101010 1111 11100 01100 1110010100 010010110 100101100 11001100 1011100 0101110010 1111011 1101101 110011100 11111010 10111101 101110110 110110100 100100010 1101101110 0011010 1110110 01110010 1111100 11011100 1011110 10111000 111110100 1110000100 11110111 11010110 11101110 1111010 10011100 110101000 1111010100 1011010 11010111 111010 101011100 110111011 11111110 11111001 111111010 1110100 110101010 11111001 11110100101010 1010010010100 1011000111000 1101011111000 1 111001011010 1100 110010100 10010 11111110 10101010 11110010 11001010 11110110 1111000 10110100 0101101 1110100 111110 11110110 110110 1111011 100100100 11001010 11010100 10010110110 101101000 1110110 1011000 1011111 11110100 1010110 11101100 11100110 10111110 10101110 1101010 10111010 111110 11101100 0111010 10111000 110100100 1001100 111010 111111010 10001001 110011110 1100110 11110110 1111000 10110100 0101101 1010010110000 1100 01111100 10010 1 1010100110 1011010110 11000110 1001010010 101010010 10010110110 11101001 1100100100 111101111100 101001111100 11101110 1101101110 11010100 10100101 1101110100 111100100 110111010011 11011101010 01101100010 1110101110 110101011 11111011100100 1100101010 111001101110 1110111001100 01100111110 1110100100 11001001000 101010100100 1 1111110010010 10100101 11101100100 11111010 110011100 11001010100 11001000100 110011011 1000111100 110011001 110011110 010011010 10101001010 101001110 101000100111 101010111 11101100100 11111010 1111110010010 10100101 1 101011 1011010 11110110 11100110 10010010 10001001 11100100 1001110100 10100101 100010100 1001010 10110010 1001000100 1100110 10101100 100111 101000110 01011010 101001110 10001100 10010100 110110110 01010110 1010100 1010100 10101100 101100100 11000100 101010010 10010100 101010100 101001000 10100110 1101010 11110100 10100100 111010100 11101110 11100110 1001001010 1001001000 11110101 11100100 11100100 100100110 10010010 11001100 1100110 1101011 111100 10101110 1001110 10111010 110110100 10010000100 1100110 10101100 100111 111011000 101010 1 1101100 11010100 10010100 11001000 1001110 101110 10110100 1011001 100111100 1101110 11110100 1010100 11100110 10111 1101100 10100110 01011011 1111100 10110011 1011100 10101010 11111010 111100101 1111010 1001110 101110 10110100 1011001 1 10110010010 1101100110010 11000111110 110110110010 0100001001110 10010100110 10110111110110 110100111010 10010010000 1101100101100 11001001100 1001001000110 1110110110010 1101001101 110010001010 01010100110 1100111000010 1101100010100 101011111011 1001101110100 100101011010 11001000101100 11011101011 100111010100 10101100100110 1101100111 10110101010 10111110011 10100110010 1111100110001 110010110100 01101100110 1111011110011 1010101110 1000111111 110011010 1010111111 10110011010 10111110111 1101111010 101001011010 1101101111110 11010001000 11001010011 1111100100 100101110110 1101010110 1011111110 10101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 68
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 303
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, quando, s, tu, meu, t, n, chores, doce, e, que, sem, tenho, sou, te, lhe are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, e, que, s, n, quero, dos, vai, h, tenho, fala, care, se are repeated.
The author used the same words o, e, j, n, quero, tenho at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines terra is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase cheio connects the lines.
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