This is an analysis of the poem Crepúsculo Do Mar that begins with:

No céu brilhante do poente em fogo
Com auréola ardente o sol dormia,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110 1100101110 11100110010 1011100 1011110111 11100111000 101001111000 110010 101101101 1010111100 10111010010 110100 11010101100 1011010100 110001011100 10100110 101010011000 1011010011 101010100110 1100110 1011111100 101001101110 1010111010 11110100 10011001100 101100101111100 111100110100 0101000 100010011100 1110011001110 1101101000 010110 101011010 110011001100 10011101011 11010100 1000111000 010010101100 011001110 1011010 1110111000 100110010100 11110100100 1101000 11111111111 10110100100 1011001010100 111100 100011111 11111001110 1100111101 1001100 110110110100 1100101011010 0100101011 110110 1110111100 110010010100 1111011100010 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; o is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word como at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Crepúsculo Do Mar;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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