Soneto Iv - Por Entre O Beberibe, E O Oceano by Gregorio de Matos Guerra: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Soneto Iv - Por Entre O Beberibe, E O Oceano that begins with:

Por entre o Beberibe, e o Oceano
Em uma areia sáfia, e lagadiça...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X A X X A X X X X X X A X XXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 110110011100 1101011100 11101010 111010001100 1101011010010 11101010 10010100100 1100010110110 1101011100 1010011100 1011010100 1010110100 111010011000 1111001100 1101011010010 11101010 10010100100 1100010110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 33
  • Average number of words per stanza: 7
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; o, e are repeated.

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

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

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