This is an analysis of the poem A Mosca Azul that begins with:

Era uma mosca azul, asas de ouro e granada,
Filha da China ou do Indostão....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX XcXX XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010100101010 1011011100 11011010010101000 1101010 110110110110 100011011 111010111000 1101110 1110110001100 111100 1011001110110 11111100 10101011001 110101101 111101100100 110111110 11101110010110 110010110 10101101000010 11001100 101101100010110 10101100 1101101100011 1111011011 10110111101000 11011101 1100100100110100 100110010 1100111101000 1111101 10010011110 1101101111 1010111001 110100100 1001010110001 100001 100110101100 1101110 010011110100 1101000 11100101110100 11001110 10111101101000 1010110 101100001100110 100011000 111010110010 100001000 111110010110 110001110 01011011010110 110101110 1000101000110 111110100 10010110110 10001100 100001101111110 1011001 100111010111100 10100110 1101010111000 1101110 1011000111110 10011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, e, um, que, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words um, e are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Mosca Azul;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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