This is an analysis of the poem Sonho that begins with:

Era um bosque, um arvoredo,
Uma sagrada espessura,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXABcXX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bXXABcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111000 101001000 1000100 11100011 10110010 11110011 1101100 10010 10101100 1010011100 11111010 111110010 1110001110 11100101 111000111 11110101 101010100 11011010 1010100 010101 1111101000 111011100 101101000 110100 11000110 1110111100 101000100 11000110 11010011 10110101100 1001111100 11101101 11110010 100101000 1000100 11100011 10110010 11110011 1101100 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; nem, que, me, o, um are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines crente is repeated).

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