This is an analysis of the poem Longe De Ti that begins with:

Quando longe de ti eu vegeto,
Nessas horas de largos instantes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXaaX XXXbaXXb XXXXXaaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011100 1010010100 11001101100 10101110010 1011101110 10010101111 110001100010 110100110110 10101100100 1010110100 1010111110100 100101011 10010111010 1001001000100 10110111110 111101110 10101101100 1100111100 0111101000 101010001 10101110010 11000101 1101110110 110001010 10010001011 110101100 1011011000 1010110011 111011110 0100100010 110111010 10110100111 011100100 110101100 1000011000 01010100011 0101100100 0101110100 1101110100 1011000111 1110110110 1100111100 111001101100 10101101010 1010110 1101100100 1011101100 101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, o, teu, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fito, este, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).

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