This is an analysis of the poem Ocaso that begins with:
Perdido como estou nesta grande charneca,
Cheio de sede, cheio de fome,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa Xbcb X ddeX XXcX XXXX XXeXXX X XXXXX XXXXXX aXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,4,4,6,1,5,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101100 101101 11111101110111000 1110110100111 110001111100 1010101110 110110101101110 1100010110001 111101111100 10010110010 101101110011 1110101010 1110101010 1111111011100 1011001100 1100011101010 111101101110 1111000111 100111110 10101110111 100100110 1110100001010 10100000100 1010100101 11110011010110 101011101110 1101110 101001011 11110010010 10010101000 1001100 10101111110010 1110101100 1101000110100 1101000100 11000110100 110110111011100 10100101100 111010101100 111010111011 111110011100 10110010011 11101011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, de, o, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nem, se are repeated.
The author used the same word se at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ocaso;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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