This is an analysis of the poem Ao Decênio De Castro Alves that begins with:
Quem sempre vence é o porvir!
No espadanar das espumas ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXX XXXXXX bXXX XXXcXXdXXX XXXcXXeXXe eXXXeeaXXd XXXX XXbXXb XaXdXXXXXX XcXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,4,10,10,10,4,6,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 110001100 111110 11011000 11001011 11010100 111010110 11101010 1011010 101010 1011010 1000101 1011011 11010110 111110 10111110 111001100 1101010 11010100 0110100 111010 100010 100011 101111010 101111011 1100010 01000100 1001011 1001011 101110 1101010 111110 1100011 11000111 1110111 111110110 1001100 01011 10101000 110101000 01011110 101101011 111010 110110 1001100 110101011 110110011 1100010 011100 1110101000 01011011 1110101110 10111010 1110100 0111010 1110110 11110100 111110 11000100 11100110 1111010 11101000 1100010 110111000 11001011 1101110 111001010 11111 110110100 111010100 10001011 1101010 100111 1101110 1101011 111010100 11101100 111010 101101 1110110 10100110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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 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, e, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fatalidade, que, e are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ias, ria, se, nio are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases eu, os connect the lines.
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