This is an analysis of the poem Tempos Idos that begins with:
Não enterres, coveiro, o meu Passado,
Tem pena dessas cinzas que ficaram;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110010011100 11010101100 11010101100 110111111110 111011101000 110011000 1111010101100 110010001100 111100101100 10101110010 10101101100 1011011101000 100101110 1110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, n are repeated.
The author used the same word n at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).
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- summary of Tempos Idos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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