This is an analysis of the poem O Corvo (Portuguese Translation Of Poe's that begins with:

Em certo dia, à hora
Da meia-noite que apavora, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXab cXXXXXXXXX XXXXXcXXXb XXXXXXXbXb XXaXXXXXXX XXbXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXb XXXXXXXXXX XXcXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXaXaXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 11111000 11001011000100 1101010100 0101010010010 10100101010 11101110000 11101001 110111100100 101101101 111101110 10110100 1010111110100 0110100 1100101100 101001011000 100111110000 10100100 10110111010100 1110101 111011010 1100101000 1011101101100 10111000 10110110110 100101011100 110001011000 11010101 1100111010100 101101101 1001010111 111001101 101000101101100 110010100 110110000100 1100010010110 1001110100 100011010 1010100100110 10011101 11010100010 11100011100 11011101011100 1110101100 1001001010 11100101100 100111100100 1101101 111011101001110 110100101 1010101000 101010100 11101111001010 100011100 10101100100 1101101100 11001101000 1011001 100001110100 101101101 1001001010 1010000 11101010010010 11001100 1100110101100 011101010110111 10011111001 1001110 101101101110010 100101101 111111100 10010100 1110100111000 1011011100 111111110010 1100010110 1101111100 11110100 101101111100 11101101 101110100 010011110 101001000100110 100011000 1101010110 10110100010 1011101010 110100110 10101000101100 1111101 1100110100 11101000 1011101001001101 10110100 10010100100 11001010110 11110010100 1001101 10011110000100 11101101 1000100100 01000100 1001011010010 1111100 11010100110000 1110010011000 11001101100 1111010 11101100110100 11000101 10011100 101111000 11011011010110 110001100 1100111010100 1010001100 0101100110100 1001010 10011110011110 10001101 1011000 100010000 11100111111100 10110111000 100001100010 1010110100 1111101 11101000 010101001011100 11001111001 1010111110 10111001100 100100110110 110100100 1100100100 11100101110 10100111100 10100100 110110010100100 11101101 1001111110 11101100 100110011011010 10111100 11001001000 101100111100 10101110110100 1111010 1110100110110 11101101 1001111110 11101100 10011001010010 111111110 101110100010 101010111110101 110101011010 10100100 10110111010100 11101101 11101100 1001111110 10110101000110 10001100100 111101100 11111110100 1011101001 1011101010 10110011010111 11101101 111001011100 1101100 11001011100100 1011111110 1101000110 110101110000 11100110110 10010100 1101101010110 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; de, me, o, que, um, se, ou are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 'profeta 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 rio, ncia, vel, ' are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words mais, mais' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases somente, calado connect the lines.

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