This is an analysis of the poem Dalila that begins with:
Foi desgraça, meu Deus!... Não!... Foi loucura
Pedir seiba de vida â€" í sepultura,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXXX bbXXXX aXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXcbXX XXcXXc XXXXXX aXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111100 101001011000 11011100 101001010110 10100111010011 1101010 100101101100 110001100010 110010 100010101110 10110001001110 1011011 11001100110110 0101011001000 111101101 11001001101100 11010110010 11010 1 1011011100 10101001000 100010 10011010100 1010100110 1101010 111111111010 111010110110 101101 1010111011010 1001110101100101 101101 1100111011100 1101010111 10100111 11101110010 111111001011100 11011 1111001101 10010010011 1111110 01000101110 111010110110 110110 11010001110 110010010110 110110 111010011100 1011001110100 100110 1101101010 1101000110 111010 101101010 11110011101 1101110 101010110100 1101011001101 1001 10110111000111 11011010011100 011100 10101101010 1010011000 11010 11011100010 1101101010 10110 11101010 1101011000 11010 010010011010 11001100100 010010 11101010101 11010010110 111011 1110110010100 010011001100 001011 11100111010 1011100111011000 1110 10011111100 1110110010 011100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; o, foi, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , seu, a are repeated.
The author used the same word e at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , rio, as, nia are 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 words/phrases , deserto connect the lines.
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