This is an analysis of the poem Braços that begins with:

Braços nervosos, brancas opulências,
brumais brancuras, fúlgidas brancuras, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110010100 1010010100 10010100100 100110100 110001010 1110010100 10010010100 1100110100 1100100010 110100010110 1101101 10011011 101001010 1001011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ncias is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ncias, reas are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ncias at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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