This is an analysis of the poem From The Portuguese that begins with:
I
When I lived in the village of youth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BccXdecf BfgdXFD XcfhXci bgdFD cjkegchX X ddhjhjX hfaegXef kekfihgcah hahdlhcamXXkifbfahXiX filhmekXfif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,7,7,5,8,1,7,8,10,21,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111001001 101001010 10001010 1101011 011111110 10110010 1001010 100101 111001001 01101110 110110010 10110110 01110110 011011011 0110110 11100101 11110110 11101110 11110111 11011010 11001110 0101101 11001001 1111110 1001110 011011011 0110110 111111 11000110 11011010 1011001 011111110 10111110 101101011 0101101 1 11010110 111010010 1001011 101010001 10010010 010000100 1000100 0111011 100100110 1011011 101011 101110 1111010 1001111 1001 1101111 1001110 1111111 11101111 11110011 110111 11010110 11001010 11101 0100001 111111 1111111 01010001 1101010 111011110 1111110 1111111 1111010 1101011 1011111 1111001 110101 1100111 11010110 11001001 1010010111 111101011 11111100 1111011 1111110 10110101 111101 1111101 111111 11011011 0111101 11110 111011111 111111 11101111 101111 0110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in, of, new, no, them, my, loved, he, all, she, and, too, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase laughing connects the lines.
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