This is an analysis of the poem A Cabeça De Corvo that begins with:
Na mesa, quando em meio à noite lenta
Escrevo antes que o sono me adormeça,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011110 1001011101100 101101001010 01101000 010110010 11011011100 1100011111010 1010101010010 11000010010 1101001010110 10101111010 1010110 11100101001100 111100011100 11100011110 100101010100 101101100110 101101100010 11101100010 10101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.
The author used the same word e 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 a is repeated).
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