This is an analysis of the poem O Navio Negreiro Part 2 (With English Translation) that begins with:

Que importa do nauta o berço,
Donde é filho, qual seu lar? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcXXX XXXbXXXXdX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX e fghgeeeicj XheXehfXda XXXjccXjidXcjhijijcce
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,1,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010110 110111 10010110 111001101 10101100 10011100 1010010 101101100 100100100 1101101 110011000 1000010 1011100 1100011 1010110100 1010010 1001011 1110110 100110011 10110110 1110001 1110111110 101000110 11110100 10101010 1001000100 01010100 1110000 101101100 11100110 11000100 101011 10100100 11110010 10110100 11001110 10110010 10010110 101010110 110011 10010 11001010 101011001 1010001 1011101 1011001 011010 10110 100101 001011 001101 00100100 10001001 0101110 0101000 010001001 101010 1011010 1001001 01010011 101000010 0100110 11001 11100011 1001010 1000101010 01001100 0101100 010110 1010001 10100011 001010 100101010 100110 00110101 111001 11100011 101101 10011 11101101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, as, que, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 orias is repeated).

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  • summary of O Navio Negreiro Part 2 (With English Translation);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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