This is an analysis of the poem O Sentimento Dum Ocidental that begins with:

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Nas nossas ruas, ao anoitecer,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXa bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXa cXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX dXXX X XXXX XXXX XXbX aXXX XXXX eXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X eXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXd XXXX cbXe X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111000 111000111000 11101101100100 1001100100010 11101010100 1110000101100 1110011101010 10111011001100 101100100110 100101111111100 1001110010010 01101011000110 100110101010 110001010000 101001111000 100101101101000 10110001100 01001101000010 10010101100110 110101011110010 11001011010 1010101010000 101011100110010 1010011111010 11111100111000 0110011011000 1110110011100 1001101010110 11011001100 1101001001010 110011101100 1101100100111100 10111100111000 10100110100111100 111010101000 10011001001100 110001101000 1101001001100 1100101001100 1101101001100 1001100010 1110101100 1100111101110 1111101100100 1 10111111101 110001101010010 11011110100110 1100100101001 111001011000 010110100110 101101101110 10111011111111100 0101000111100 1110111101100 1001101110010 10101011011101000 1100110010 10011011110 101001101000100 10110101110001100 11110011000 10111101010100 1001110110100 11101101001010 1110010110 11001001101000 110100100100 11010010110 1110110100001 1010000101000 1011001001100 10011110110110 1010001000 1101101101100 101011001010 100111100100110 11011011100 1010100110100 10011000111000 1000101101100 11110001100 1011001011000 1010100111010 1101011001100 11010001011 11011000101000 10110011001000 10111000111110 1 1101101001 100100100111100 1100111110000 110110011011 10111010110 111001100100 110111001010 110100011000100 11000110000 1001011001010 110111011010 110111010001000 110000100110 1100100110100 101010010011101 110100110001110 1111001101100 1001111010110 1001001101000 10100101100010 1010011001 1101001001100 0101001101000 1010100100110 111001010 110000101101100 11001010010110 111011001011100 11001001110 01110011100100 110100011010 100101110000 100111001000 1010001011000 10010101010000 1110010100111100 1101010011110 110001010010010 11001001100010 1011100110100 111010001 11100101001100 11110011000100 110010110010 1 11010010001 10111100111100 110011101100 10010100100100 11011011000 1100011101100 10011101011000 11101101001100 11101011001010 01010000101100 1101101001100 1101000101010 1111101011000 101100010110 101010100100 1100110010100 101010101 1001100100110 11011011110000 1010010011 1100110110 1110111110100 1101001011000 110100100010 111100110000 110111001100 101001101101100 111001001010000 11010001000 1011001101100 11011011101110 1001111101000 1110100110 10011010111000 110110110100 1000001110010 111011001100 10001001100100 11011001110100 1010010101100 11010100100 011001100010 01010101101000 111011011001 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 49
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 182
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, se, o, os, as, um, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, e, que 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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