This is an analysis of the poem O Marruero that begins with:

Marruero, eu sou marruêro!...
Nacendo, cumo tinguí,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXXbXXX XXXX XbaX XXXb XXXX XXaX XcaX XbXX cdXXa aXXX bXeX XXXX XXXX XXXb aXXXX XaXX XXXX XbXf aXbX XfXf aXbX fXXXX aXXab aXXXXXX XbXXXX aXXXX bfXX XXabaXX bXXc aXXf XXXX aXXX XXbe XXXX XXbX XgXX XXXX XdXX XXXX XXXX XXXh aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,5,7,6,5,4,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,3,4,2,2,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011100 1001010 1110010 111100 1010010 101010 1111100 11101 111101 11111 111111110 101011101 11111100 1001111 01110 0101100 100100 1001110 11011010 111010 101101 100010 11111 1111 1101110 110110 10010101 11100 1111000 11110 110111 1100110 1110110 10010110 111011010 1101100 10101100 110100 10110010 1010010 1010100 11011 10101010 110110 1101110 11110 100010010 1111010 1110111 11110011 1011010110 10110 111100 11011010 111010100 1111100 110011 111011111 1011010010 1011110110 11111010 111000110 10010100 110111 1010110 1010110 11110010 11101001 1110101010 1001010 1100010 1001110 111100 1101111 10010100 1001100 1111000 01010100 10111100 111011 11110110 111010 110110 10100110 10110111 110110 1011101000 1100110 10101010 10010100 1011110 10110100 10100100 1100100 11001100 101001100 1001100 010101 1110001010 1110110 1001110 101100 1001010 111101 100101100 11011 100110010 101110 1101110 1010010 101100100 10111 110011100 110001100 10011000 11111010110 1010 110110 11010010 1101010 11011010 100011 10011100 011100 11001010 11100100 111110 100110 11000110 10011010 1101110 1100110 11110 1101010 10000100 11111010 10101100 10010110 10100110 0101011 1011011 100110 1001011 10110 110110 11010010 010111010 1001101 1010110 1110010 110010 1101000 1011001 10010010 1010010 1101111100 110011 1001010 11110110 0101110 111001 11011010 11111 1111011100 1111110 111110110 1001 1010110 1001011 11001000 101001 1110001110 10111100 1101100 101110 1110111110 11000100 10011100 1101111 10100010 1110100 101000100 110110 110010 1100100 10100100 1001111 101010011 1111111 111111000 111110 011110 101000100 110010110 11001000 110110 1100100 010100110 110100 1010010 1010001 11010110 1010001100 1011010 1101000 1110101 101110 1001100 11101110 101000100 1101011 1001011 1101101 1010111 1100010 1001011 10010010 110001000 10001000 1101100 10001000 011110100 10110110 10011000 101101 10011100 1110011 1101011 11011001 1101100 111110 110110100 11011100 10100 1110011 11110100 11011 101110100 110110 1110100 10100100 10100110 11001 1111111 1101100 111101 1110010 10011 110110100 111010 111011 11111 110100100 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 65
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 258
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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, que, tira, cumo, ro, eu, grande are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, pr, que, um, o, manu, nos, vinha, eu, munta, grande are repeated.

    The author used the same words nada, tinha 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 ro is repeated).

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

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