This is an analysis of the poem A Minha Irmã Adelaide that begins with:
Quando Sozinho e triste... em horas de amargura,
Tu sentes de meu seio a tempestade escura...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXXXba XXXXXa XbXXXa aXacca XXXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001111001000 1100110100100 11010011100 100100011010100 1001011010 110111001010 110011011010011100 110010011110 110101011010100 111001101110 1110111100010 1101101001010 1011001100100 110100110100 11001101001101100 1100101101010 1101100100100100 11100010011010 1100011001110 10101000111010 010101011100 100101001100100 11110111100 1101101011010 1011101001110 1010110110110 1011011110100010 10011001100010 1010100110010 110101001101010 11011110010110 101011100101 11000111110001 1101011100010 101111101100100 11010001111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, o, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word piano at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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