This is an analysis of the poem Tragédia No Lar that begins with:

Na Senzala, úmida, estreita,
Brilha a chama da candeia,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 227,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010100 10010110 1111100110 101110010 10110101000 1001101000 1100100 10100100 1000010 11010110 11110100 111101100 1110110 1111011100 10010100 11000100 11111100 1010010 11110010 11011110 11010010 11100100 10010100 1101110 1110110100 100010 11100101 11010110 1100011 1101001 1101001 10110110 101100010 11111 11111 101101110 11101 1011100 1011100 11110010 11100110 101000100 101000100 111001000 11100111 101001000 101001000 10111100 11101110 11011110 010010101010 0110101000 010010 110110010100 110100100 110110110 10010110010 1001010010 11001000 11000100 110100 11010000 10100100 11110011 111001000 1100100 01011001100 100110 1110100110 110100100010 110100 1101100110 0101011001 101100 11101011001 11001010110 1110010 111101100100 1101010100 110100 1111111010 111010010010 101111 10111001110 101010001010 111101 11011001000 110110100110 110110 1111000101110 010110010 110010 10110001100 11011011000 110111 100110010 1001010111 100100 101111100 01101100 10100110 111010 111100100 11001010 1111100 11110010 11011101 1100110 1111010 101001100 11100100 11010000 10100110 1100110100 11101010 1010100 10111000 10101110 11011010 110110100 11010110 0100110011 0101011 1100110 11110110 1110110 110110100 10101111 11011101100 010011010 10000110100 11001101 111010111100 0101010100 11011000010 1100110100 10011110 100111 101011100 1001010 10101100010 11000110 01110 101010110 101010 110110 11101110 1011101 1111010010 11001001000 100 110100 1010101101 1011011001100 111010 110 111110 1010110 101101 101110110 1100110 1101011100 11101101101 100110010 10111101 10101010111 111010110 101010 101010 100110 101101001 100101110 1011001100 1100101 1011101111000 10011010 10010010 011111 011011100 011011001 101110 1101100010 11010101 10110110 1011100 1010110 1101010010 110010 101001100 10010101 110101000 110100 10100101 11011010 1101110 1011111 1101010010 100110110 01011011100 1110010110111 1011010110 10110111 11101000 101001000 110110100 101111100 0101010 111101000 101010 100100110110 100010 101011001000 101010 11110100 1111010 1111010110 1010110 10110100 101010 101101100 111100 11001001000 100011010010 010010 11001100101110 11101010100 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6445
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1219
  • Amount of lines: 227
  • 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:

    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, livre, 'tem, nem, que, de, s, vender, me, ter, ao are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'me, 'que, 'canta, 'tem, a, o, e, que, hav, de, deixai, nem are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines frio, voa, caminho, baunilha, trepadeira, vel are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase vender connects the lines.

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