This is an analysis of the poem Sonho Poético that begins with:
Oh, que sonho, oh, que sonho eu tive nesta
feliz, ditosa, sossegada sesta! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXcXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXaXXdXXXXXccXXcXcXcXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101110 10100100010 11111010011 11111010011 101011110 10000110110 100100010100 1010100100 1100101100 101001100100 0100101010110 11010111010 111100010011 11010111101 1001001001 1000010100 0100110100 1010101000 1100010010 1011001100 110010001000 010100111110 1101110011100 11010101000 1101101001010 1111000100 010010101000 11110010011100 110010011000 100101010100 110011 101 110 1011100 101001 110100 110100 110011 110100 1100110 1000110101 10010100 0110101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1425
- Average number of words per stanza: 250
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; as, de, o, e, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sirvo, ao are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines se is repeated).
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More information about poems by Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto
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