This is an analysis of the poem Qual Leão that begins with:
Recitada pelo aluno Antônio de Castro Alves
no Outeiro que teve lugar no Ginásio Baiano...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXcXcXXcXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXbbXcebXfeXXXXXbbXdXXXcXXcXXXXXXfXXXXXeXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 95,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101001001010 1100111011010 0101001 1 11010001010 11101110100 100001010100 11101110 1111000110 01001111110 1011011011100 1110110110 111010010110 110100111110 1100011101 1111101100 10011010110 11011100100 100110011010 11011111110 11011010101 1001010110 1010101000 11001000100 101101101000 101101101010 10110101100 1110100100110 1 110101011 100010100 110001000 1110100 1101001000 111000 1011110 111100 10101100 1011000 0110010 100101010 1100111 1000110010 1110010 110110 1100111100 1010110 1110110 110010100 1110010 1111100 11110110 101010 11010100 110110010 11111000 1111110 1010100 10111010 1111101000 1101110010 1100100 1111100 11011110 1100010 1111100 01100100 010010 10010110 110110000 1110111 11000110 10110110 1101000 1100110 1110100 10100010 1101100 011111110 1010001 11111001 1001010 1110010 11010100 10101100 11011000 10100100 1101010 10011000 101001010 11110 111010 11000110 101001011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2617
- Average number of words per stanza: 505
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, o, seu, e, deixa, os are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word deixa is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o, ria, us are repeated).
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- summary of Qual Leão;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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