This is an analysis of the poem O Leito that begins with:
Ontem, à meia-noite, estando junto
A uma igreja, lembrei-me de ter visto...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
- 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: 101110010 0101001010110 110110011010 1100100 11010101000 11100101101 1011110110 11010010100 11100101100 10111100010110 1101101100100 11000110 11101001010 1111010111 1110110100 110010100 110101110100 11010111010 11010101110 1010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; um, o, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word um is repeated.
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