This is an analysis of the poem Adeus that begins with:

Adeus! P'ra sempre adeus! A voz dos ventos
Chama por mim batendo contra as fragas....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX bXXX XXXXXbXX aXXXaXXXXX cXXdaXeXXf XeXX X XXXX XXXX fXXX XXXX XaaX XXXX XgXg adXX aXXX Xcbg XdXX aXXX aXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,10,10,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111001110 101110010110 1110111100 11010110010 10001011100 111001100110 11101101010 1111101110 1110001001110 1110001000101 1001011011 10110100010 110110101010 1101011011 1011010011 111110111010 10111010101 10001000110 11010111010 1000111101 11101001010 1011001101010 1100110010011 10101111100 1011010110 1101000 101110100 1001110 11110110 1110001100 1110100010 1010100 1101110 1001011 101110011 11010011 100010000 11010110 1110110 1110100 1101010 11111 1101110 1011101 111010110 11100011 11010100 01010001 1 10101001100 110011010110 1110001000110 10001111010 10101100 10111101 010110100 01010011 0100110110111 1111101100 11010010111 1101100100 10110100 1110100 01001011 1101110 0101110100 110101110110 1101011100010 01001011110 110011101100 110100101010 111101100100 11100101110 111011100 111010110 1101100100 1111011 111110110 11111110 111110110 111101001 111101010 111011 1011010 1101010 111001100 1110001 10010110 11011001 11111100 10011010 101010100 1010101 10001110 1010111100 10110100 0101001 11101111110 1001010111100 10100111110 1111001110 10111010100 0101011011 11011101100 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • 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.

    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; o, que, era are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words eu, o, sem, tu are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Adeus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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