This is an analysis of the poem A Tarde that begins with:
Era a hora em que a tarde se debruça
Lá da crista das serras mais remotas......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXaXaXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011011110 11101101100 11000110110 10011011010 101010110 101101001100 1001111010100 110001101000 10010111101000 101100101000 111001101000 10101101000 0101111011110 1101001000 1010011101100 10010101100 10101110110 101011011010 1111010100 11110110110 101011010100 1110110100 110010100110 11001100100 110101011000 11101111110011 1001011101100 11110100 1111111110110 101010001100 11001101010 110101101110 1110101100 1011100110 11101101101100 110011011000 111110100 0101100110000 111010011000 11101001100 111010110100 010011011001 0101101100 01011000010 111010111110 110100001010 110010101100 100111111100 11110011000 0110001110 1100101101100 11010001100 1010111001100 110011001011 1000110001100 10111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; te, o, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, e, a are repeated.
The author used the same word era at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Tarde;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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