This is an analysis of the poem Viagem De Um Vencido that begins with:

Noite. Cruzes na estrada. Aves com frio...
E, enquanto eu tropeçava sobre os paus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XbcX XXXX dXXX XXXe aXXX XXXX XffX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXXXf XXXXXd aXXdXX XXXc XXXX XccX XggX eXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101011 11001100111 011000011 100111010 11100100010 1110100100 1001001111000 01101011000 100100100100 10011011000 1001010010 1100010011 1100011010100 110010001100 1010100110 1100011000 1111100100 101101101 1100100001 111101001110 10011001000 10100110110 0100111100 11010001100 1010100101010 1100100110 1001001010 1101010011010 10011011100 1001101100 100001101100 1101000110 10010100001001 101100101000 11001000010 11000011010 10110101111 1011000101100 11010000100 1100000100 01000011100 0100101011111 101110100 101001010 11000110 11000111 110000100 0101100110 11001101100 01001001 110100110 110101100 11101010010 01001010010 1110110100 01011001000 1101111110010 100100001000 1101000111 01000100110 100001001100 11010100100 10100101100 11001001100 1100100100 1111011001 10111001001 111000110 10111101010 1101101010 0100001000 0101000100 1110101010 11001100101 010100010 11001110110 1101100100 1010010110 1011010001 111100101010 0100100110 011001110 1110011110 1001101000 10000001101 110101110110 1101110100 1101000101 11010110011 1101001100 10010001110 1100101110 101011100100 1010011000 101101010010 1100100110 1110110100 110100110 10001110111 0101101010 011011111110 101001110101 11110111110 11010101100 0100100110 1110001000110 11011011010 11000100010 1101011110011 10101001110 1110101100 101010110 11010101 11010010100 111011011100 1010101001001 110001000110 110010011100 011000001 10000101000 10010100110 11000100101 10100001001 11101011110 1001001101010 110000100110 10100010100 0101001000 11001011010 11010110010 01010110100 1110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • 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, e, t, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words era, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o, es, tricas, me are repeated).

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  • summary of Viagem De Um Vencido;
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  • history of its creation;
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