This is an analysis of the poem Cabôca De Caxangá that begins with:

Laurindo punga, chico dunga, zé vicente
Essa gente tão valente do sertão de jatobá...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aa XXXXXX aaAA XXXXXX aa XXXXXX XaAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,6,4,6,2,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011101010 1010010110010 11100110001010 101010101101110 101101 10101011 1011110111 101010110 101111100 100001100110 110001110 11011100 101011 111011001 100101 1010111 110111110 1100101101100 11110110 10110101011 11101010 1010110 1110111 101101 1110101110000 111001100 111011 101101101110 1111011110 100010 10101 110101 100101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, bis, cab, ca are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bis is repeated).

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  • summary of Cabôca De Caxangá;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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