This is an analysis of the poem Cansaço that begins with:
O Níufrago nadou por longas horas...
Na praia dorme frio num desmaio....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XbXb accX XbXX ccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011010 1111110 010101010001 1110101101 1111010101010 110110110 1001010111 110000110010 111010001000 10011101101 111101010 11111111 11100100010111 1110101010 010010111110 1010100010100 10111010011000 1001110111 101011001000 1110010010 111011101010 111100010 10111101110 1110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; dorme, o, que are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Cansaço;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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