This is an analysis of the poem Murmúrios Da Tarde that begins with:
Ontem à tarde, quando o sol morria,
A natureza era um poema santo,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXXXXXXCaXXCXXXbXXXXXXXXXaXXbXbXXXXXXX XXbXcXXXcXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110 010001011010 010100100010 010101000110 101101110 111011000100 10001001011010 1101111100 1000101100010 111011000100 1001001000011 1001101000110 101010110100 1011011010 1001001000011 101100100100 10010010100 111101010100 10110101110 101100100100 101101111100 101101100100 101101110100 101101011010 101101111100 11101101010110 10110101111 111101110010 111011100110 11101101010110 111100110100 10010010010 110100111100 110010011010 111100110100 1001001000110 101101111100 10110001100 101100100100 1001001000110 11100101110 1101011010 11110110110100 11110110110110 11100101110 11110001100111 101010100010 1110110110 101101111 1110001100111 1011011010 1101100100 10010101010 11111110010 1011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1028
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, me, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, e, ai, eras, tinhas, dir are repeated.
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- summary of Murmúrios Da Tarde;
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