This is an analysis of the poem Catarian. From The Portuguese Of Camoens that begins with:
A movement of the soft eyes, slow and eloquent,
A smile of sweet, yet of such chastened joy,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXabX XbXcabaXcXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010001111100 0101101101 1100010001 01010101110 010100111010 0101010111 1111010011 1111010011 0111010001 11000100111 01110101010 0101011101 01010101001 1101010101 1001001101 0101010100100 0101010101 0001010011 0001010111 11110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, this are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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