This is an analysis of the poem 12 De Setembro that begins with:

O sol oriental brilha nas nuvens,
Mais docemente a viração murmura...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXX XXX XaXXXXX XXXXaXX XXXXXXX bXXaXXa bXaXXXX XXaXXXX XXXXXXX XcXXXXa XXXXXXX baaXXXX XXXXXXX XcaXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010110 1100010100 1111100010 100110010110 10110110 1100011 1110101000 101111100110 1100110 1 1011100010 1010010100010 1101110 0101011001000 1110100101100 11010 1 101110100 110001010100 11000110 11001001010 1110100100 111010 1 11011111000 1101001100 10101000 11101110100 100011010110 110010 1 11010101000 111100010111 1011110 11000101000 111011100100 111000100 1 110101111000 110110011010 11011 101010011100 101010100 010100 1 11010101100 10011101110 110111 1001011010 11001101100 100111 1 101011101100 1001111000 1101100 11010111010 10111101000 1110110 1 10110010110 1110010011010 10110110 100101100100 111001110001000 011110 1 110101101 100010011011 11011 1101001010 1100110100 1001100 1 1011111110 1101011110 111010 11011010000 100101111000 1100100 1 1101101100 10101111100 1001110 11100010111000 11011111100 0010110 1 10101011010 10101011110 1100101 11101000110 101101101100 111100 1 1010101011 01001110110 10100110 10111100100 01011111110 010100 1 111101100 1011001100 1010100 1100110110 0110011000 1101100 1 11100110100 11100111010 100100 1110100100 111000110 111100 1 101101100 110011101100 1011010 101010010 1101011000 100110 1 1110111101010 111001011100 11001000 010001011100 11101100100 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, que, o, meu are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of 12 De Setembro;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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