This is an analysis of the poem No Alto that begins with:
O poeta chegara ao alto da montanha,
E quando ia a descer a vertente do oeste,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101001101100 1101001001011 11010100 100101 10100110110101 1100100101011000 11100110 100111 10111111110011 1110111 1100011 10011101111100 10100100 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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, ao, se are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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