This is an analysis of the poem A Mãe Do Cativo that begins with:
Le Christ í Nazareth, atix jours de son enfance
Jouait avec Ia croix, symbole de sa mort;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX X XbXX XXcX ccXX XXXX X XdXd XeXX XXXX aXXX aXXX XfXf XeXX bXXX X XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001010110 11010110011 10100101010 010110111001 10111111111 1011010100010 11110111111 1110101111 10001100 1111001010100 01110110110 10110011110 100010110110 111100111 11011011110 1011001111010 100110110100 100110011010 110010011110 110011011010 110111100100 110100101010110 11110010100 111010111000 1001111010 1 11110010011 1110011111 111101100110 1101111011 110110011010 110100110010 100011010010 010110111 11010111000 1010111101 11010110010 110111011101 10011101101011 111101111 110111010100 1111111010 10011101101011 11001011011 110010111000 110100100101 10011100110100 1001101101 10110111110 1011001010011 10110110011 0101110010 10010100100100 1101001110 110110110110 11010010100 11110001100 11011011010 1 111100111 111011010 100110110100 111110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 78
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu'il, e, que, o, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu'il, que, na, depois are repeated.
The author used the same words m, ensina at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase trabalho connects the lines.
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