This is an analysis of the poem Os Dois Horizontes that begins with:
Dous horizonte fecham nossa vida:
Um horizonte, — a saudade...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXaXXXXX XXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101010 1100010 1111010 1010001000 11111010 1101100 10101000 11001000 110011100 11010110 1110100 11111000 010101110 110110100 110100110 111010 11001100 1100100 1110010 100010100 1110110 111010110 101000 111010 11001100 1110110 11101111 10011110 101100 11010010 110011100 10110100 10110010 11010100 111100 100110100 1100100 11010100 1011000 101100 11001100 11000101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; horizonte, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nunca is repeated.
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