This is an analysis of the poem A Visão Dos Mortos that begins with:

On rapporte encore qu'un berger
ayant été introduit une fois par un...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXaXXX XXbXcdXE XXXXXXeE XXXXXdfE bXXXfdXE XXXXXdXE feXXXdcE XXXbXdXE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1011001111 11010100 1001110110100 1110101110 01011111 1000010111 1001111111 111011 11100 110101110010 0101001101 11101110001 10100110010 11010100011 1001101001 1101010010 1101011010 1111001100010 11100110010 101110001 10101010111 1111110100 1100101010 1101110010 1101011010 11000111100 11110011010 10100010100 110111000100 11101011000100 110011011101 1101001100010 1101011010 010110000111 110111001 11010100011 1010011000110 110110010 11101111 110010111010 1101011010 101101101 1011001011 101011001 111011001 10100110100 1110011011 100101010110 1101011010 10100010010 110011100010 111110110100 101100110100 1101111010 110011110011 10100101001 1101011010 110010100110 11011001011 11110110010 1011010011 1110110010 1010000100111 101111101110 1101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase o connects the lines.

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  • summary of A Visão Dos Mortos;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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