This is an analysis of the poem O São Francisco that begins with:
Longe, bem longe, dos cantões bravios,
Abrindo em alas os barrancos fundos;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 100101110010 100110110010 111100110010 11001011010 110011100100 110100100010 11110100 1001110110 11011010 101000 1010100 10011110010 11101011110 1101001010100 10111010010 11010110010 1000101110110 1101100100 1101001000 1010110100 1101011010 1110100100 1101101110 101011010 101001110 11010101000 10001111010 1101011000 110101000110 110100011010 101001000110 01101100100 1110101000 1101001000 111011010000 11101101000 10101001100 111000111000 0100111000100 1101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1404
- Average number of words per stanza: 245
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ao is repeated.
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- summary of O São Francisco;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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