This is an analysis of the poem O Início? that begins with:
Há uma coisa longe,
bem longe, atrás do horizonte ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXXXXXX AXbXaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1111100 111101 101101 1010111010 10010101000 1100 101011100 100001111010 1101001010 110101 1111110 10111 10110110 11111 10110110 101101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; longe, muito are repeated.
The author used the same word h at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of O Início?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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