This is an analysis of the poem O Tempo that begins with:
Deus pede estrita conta de meu tempo,
É forçoso do tempo já dar conta;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa aXXa XXX aXa XXXX XXXX bXX XbX XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100111 1001111110 11011111010 11101101011 101101010011 111111111110 11100111010 101101011011 110110111110 11011111000 101001111010 111111101111 10011110010 110010111111 10110110001 111010011000 10000101010 100101000110 100010010010 11110110100 1001010100100 10101101110 1110101010 101010101 1011010101 1101110110 10110101010 10111100110 1011110100 11001001010 101011110 1111010100 110100101000 101100010100 110100110 1101011000 1000111010 1101010111100 10110110100 101011010000 10100100110 11101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; tempo, conta, o, e are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines conta is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tempo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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