This is an analysis of the poem Ecos Do Realismo: Impossível that begins with:

Nós podemos viver alegremente,
Sem que venham, com fórmulas legais;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101000 111011010 1011011000 111000 11011101100 10110010100 11101100100 101000100 11011101010 1010100011 0110000100 100001 1010111010000 01010101100 100111010000 110010 1101101101 1001001010 11001010111 111010 11010110010 110101101111 100101000100 110010 11101101111 11100101010 11100110 11011000 110111001010 1101000100 10110101100 111100 11001111010 10111101100 1011010110 11010 1100110100 10101101000 1110101000 1101000 1011011101 1100011111 10010111 110100 1100111011010 1011100111 1110001001011 1101111 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, dar, te, tudo, da, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, da, eu are repeated.

    The author used the same word eu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Ecos Do Realismo: Impossível;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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