This is an analysis of the poem Mistérios De Um Fósforo that begins with:
Pego de um fósforo. Olho-o. Olho-o ainda. Risco-o
Depois. E o que depois fica e depois...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XbXX XXaX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXc XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XeXX XXXX eXXX XdbX XXXe XXXX XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010110110101 101111010110 101111010111 1010011010 11111011010 10101001001011 1101110100011 111001101100 11001001001010 10111100 1000100011 11101001010 1110001101010 1100101110 11001010 1011011010 1000100100 110100101 111111111 1110011100 10111101010 10011101010 110010001100 111010000110 110010011010 1100110100 01110010 10110001100 1110010101100 1010010011010 1010100010 10110100101000 11110101000 010100001 0101001101 10100001010 10110000110100 11011010110111 1111101010 110110100101100 0111000100 1001000110 011100001010 10010001100 1011100110 1101000010 110110100100 1100110100 1101011010 0101000010 10101010 1010010100 10110110110 11100110010 11010111011 0100001001010 101111010010 1011010100 1010000110 110111010 10111001100 1110011101010 1110000110 110010000110 1101000110 110101010101 1100011100 10001000100 101011010 100010001000 1101010110 10110000100 1100100100 1010101101 1010010001 11101111100 11001101000 10100001000 0110001100 11001000110 110001010100 1001111010010 1110010010 10000011000 1101100110 101110101010100 11001000110 110001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 109
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, um, depois, de, ser are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o, s, harto are repeated).
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