This is an analysis of the poem O Botão Da Rosa that begins with:

O campo abrira o seio às expansões frementes
das árvores senis, dos galhos viridentes. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXa XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXbXcXXXXX XXbXX XXaXXX XbXXX XXXdXXd XXXXaaaa BXXXeXXXXXXXX bXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdaXXd BXaXXX XbXXbXXX XXaXXX XXXcXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXaXd aXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX bXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXX XabXXXXXeXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,8,10,5,6,5,7,8,13,21,6,8,6,10,9,9,6,14,12,18,11,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100111010100 110101101000 10110 10101010010100 010000100 101001010110010 10110101101010 1110010010000110 1110100 1010101010010 101000 110100110100 1010100110100 101010011011000 1010001000010 1100010 11101110100 1100010 1001010011001100 1101110100 110101100 10100100100 100100 100110101101000 110100 10101101111100 01010000110100 1010101110000 10100101001000 10101100 010110 10011101101000 1011 11000111100100 1011110 10001101101100 10110 11010001110110 1110010 101100101000010 1100100 101111100110 100111010 11000 1101100100100 0101000 110100 1111001100100 010111100 110100 1100001110100 11100010 1100010 10100 1000110110100 1010010 011000101000110 11001000 110011100100 100110 1011101011000 110100110100 101010010100 1100100 1101000 101010010100 1011001101010 1110111010110010 10101010 101011010 1010001100100010 1011010 10010110100110 1011100101010 1101011 110010 110100 1010100 101100 10110111000010 101011101010 011000 011100 0110100100 10101 1101001100100 1011100 11100111110100 1111110 110100110100 110110 11110100 111100110010 0100110 1000100 101101000100 10101000 1111110 110001011000100 1111100011 1010 1010010 11110000 10101 110100 1011010 1100100 100010110010010 010010 100011 1011 11001110011000 10110010 1001001011 1101110010000110 1010010001 0101010 0101100 10101100110100 110110 1101010010100 01010010100010 0101001011010 100011000100110 1110110 11100111000 110100 110100 1101000010110110 11101001001010 11011000010100110 100101100010 1110100100010 10001011011000 100010101000 1101010 10011001001100 1010100100110 1000100110010 10001110111000 111000 110010 0110100010110 01011001111000 1001011101110 0100100010101 1000100110010 011001 101110011 100110 10011000 101010100110 10111010010000 10110 110110 1010110 1100010 010111111 101011110011 1110010 10101001011 10101010 10011000 1011001101011100 111111011 1111100 1111100 101000 101010 1001100010101100 11100 11011000 11010001110 1011010 111100100010 111110 110101111010 1001100010111110 11011000110100 11010011000 0110 110100 100101 110100 011011 1101001100011 110110 1001000110100 110110000111000 10011101001100 10010001 010100 01111000 1001110110010 11001000 11110 1100100 111000001010 1111010 10100010011010010 011110101000 10100111100 10100110100 01100011010 10110010 0101010 1110001100110 1101000 1110011000110 11010 101100011001101 1110001111001 1001100 101101101100100 10111101001 100101010101100 1000100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; o, como, e, as, de, perfumes, da are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, como, tinha, das, perfumes, de, os, a, em, da, precisas are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ticos, culo, vida, os are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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