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

Oh não te espantes não, notomia,
Que se atreva a Bahia...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a X X X X X b X b X X X X X X X X X X X X X X b X a a X X a X X X X X X X X X X b X X X X X X a X b X X X a X X X X X X b X a X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X a X X X X X X X X X X b X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001100 1111000100 11000111010 1011011010 11101101000 1111001000 110101101100 1001010 111001101100 11000100110 111110101100 11011011000 1010001100 111010 101010101011 100010010010 10010001000 1001011100 11001001000 11101100 0111000100 11101110010 1111101100 11010111010 11010010110 01101100 110101100010 1101000110 11000110010 101010110110 1010110110 11101010 1000101110 1100100110 10011001000 1100101100 01010110100 010101 010111101100 101011110110 111101111100 11110011011110 10110010110 11010110 010010010100 1011001100 11111011110 11011011100 11110000110 1110110 110111010110 100101101010 1110111001000 110010110101000 1011100110 10111100 100101001100 11101101110 101101011000 11101101010 1100101110 1101110 101101001100 111001011010 1101110001000 11111110000 111101101000 111100 10100101000 11001011100 11110111011 1011100010 11101100011 1110110 11110011100 1110110010 110000110 1110001110 11001100100 11101110 1100110010 11010101000 100110101100 100110100110 101101011000 1011100 1101101010 1101100110 110100110010 101101100100 11101100110 1010010 100011001110 101010011100 1101100101100 101101011000 1011101010 11011101 1101010010 1100101110 1011101100010 110111001100 1011101101100 101101100 1111001101 110111011 110101111100 1010010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 108
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 33
  • Average number of words per stanza: 7
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; que, mais, o, as, de, s, te, ou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.

    The author used the same word e at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tua, es, as, zo, a, cio are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words tua, es, as, zo, a, cio 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 Liras;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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