This is an analysis of the poem Fantasias Do Impossível: Esplêndida that begins with:

Ei-la! Como vai bela! Os esplendores
Do lúbrico Versailles do Rei-Sol...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011000 11001111 100111001000 1011001100 1101000 101111011001 1111100010 1111010101001 10010101100 1001001 100110011000 1101001100 110101001000 101001001111 111000 1010111000 11111111000 10100101100 01011101000 10101100 1001000100 1100100100 101100011000 10010100010 10100100 110111011000 101101101 11001001000 1101100111 01010000 1111000001000 110101101100 100100010000 1000110111 10011100 1100101100 010100011110 101110100 101100110 11100 1110100110 100011000 1000101010 1010100101 01010000
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word e at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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