A Resignação by José Basílio da Gama: poem analysis

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

Temam embora a morte os que aferrados
Aos grossos cabedais, que possuíam,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • 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: 1010001111000 110100110 100010100 11101110000 101010101100 1010101100 010100110110 1101011100 111111101000 11001101100 111011110100 1111011110 11101001110 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; que, os, o are repeated.

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