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

Na formosa estação da primavera
Quando o mato se arreia mais festivo,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX XaXXbacXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXdXXX XXXX baXXXXXXXX bXXX XXX XXX X XXXXXX XXXcXXXXXXXXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,10,4,5,7,4,10,4,3,3,1,6,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010010 1011011101100 111010001010 110010110010 1111001101 1101101100 101010100100 110001101100 1010011010110 110110010110 01010010011100 11101001100 101011101010 10110100110 101101011010 11010110100 1100100100 1100111000 10101001000 101110110010 11110110 010100100010 111010111100 1011101011100 110001001100 1100101110 10100110010 101010001100 11011011100 1100100110 11101101100 10110011000 11110111110 10101111000 11100100111 10101101110 0101010011 11001100110 10011011100 111011101110 1010101101100 1001100101100 1100110100011 110011110 010101010100 100011011000 1010110100 110111101100 110110010 110010101000 1011101011 10001110110 10001001100 1011101100 10111010100 11001101000 101110100110 10110110100 1011110101 100101011 1010100110111 101001011100 1100101110 111001111010 10111010110 110001101100 10100111000110 110011111 101110011010 10110010001 100 10101001010 11011011000 110010101100 10111010 111101011100 10101110110 101001101100 10100111000 11101000100010 101001001010 11111100010010 01010111 010111010110 101101101100 1101101110011 1101001001 10111010110 101011000110 10100010100100 10100110101011 10110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; o, as are repeated.

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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