This is an analysis of the poem A Meu Irmão Guilherme De Castro Alves that begins with:

Na cordilheira altíssima dos Andes
Os Chimbolazos solitários,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11000100110 11000100 10 1010010010 110110001000 111001 100 101011001 100 010101110010 10001001010 110100110 1010110100 10111001010000 1110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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