This is an analysis of the poem O Vidente that begins with:

Às vezes quando à tarde, nas tardes brasileiras,
A cisma e a sombra descem das altas cordilheiras;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXBXXcXXXXXXddXXBXeXXXXXXXbXaaXeXXXXXXXXXcXaXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXaXXXXXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 106,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011101000 0101010101101000 1000101001111000 1010100010010110 10101010111100 110100110110 111001001010100 1101110001101000 10011100101000 10011111101010 11010100101011110 1001001001000 1011101010010010 101011010011100 1001100110110 1010110011110 101101100010111 111111001101 11101101111000 11110101110110 0101100101110 100110010111100 1011110010010 1001001011100 1011111001101000 10101101010000 11101011001 1100100001000111 10101001101100 1001000111000 101101100010111 11111001101 11001101100100 1100100110100 1101100010100 110011000011100 10110010011010 1001001010011011 1110010101010 10110001011011000 1111101110010111 11110001101 110010110101010 1001110110010 1101100101110 0110101001111 1101010011000100 111011101111100 1011101000101010 11010001101010 110111101001100 11010011011000 10010000101110 101101011110100 1110011001100 0101010101110 100111001110010 11011000101110 101111101100110 11010101000100 1110100010011000 1111001100100 1010101011101 10110011111100 11101010011000 0101100100110 11001110110110100 1101110011011011 110011100101000 10110100101100 1101000110110 1100110101001 11010011010100 110110010100100 1011011101100 11101100110010110 110111001100110 1011001001100 101011001010001 11110001101100 110011101011100 101101101110110010 111000101100 1010001111000 1100110101001 10100101010100 10000101001110 1100100110110 100101101110 01110011001000 111101100010 1101100110110 100111101010100 01000101011100 110110010100010 1011001011010100 1010110110110 11011001111000 1110100010100 1000110101000 11101101010100 11011110110 1010010011000 11001101010000 11001001001011 11110001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 923
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, que, s, da, em, todo, dos, todos, desses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, em, dos, todos, quero are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, o, s, ria, rica, ias, rio are repeated).

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  • summary of O Vidente;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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