This is an analysis of the poem Glória Moribunda (Fragmento) that begins with:

É uma visão medonha uma caveira?
Não tremas de pavor, ergue-a do lodo. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXX XXXX XXXXXaXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010010100 11001010110 1010100110 10010110010 101100110100 1010100011000 101101010110 01010010110 1010001000 10101011010 100101010100 0100101011100 1001011100010 100100101000 110010101110 11100011100 10010011001 101010101000 1001011011000 10111011010 10111101010 111011010100 101011011000 101110011010 101001010011 1010011011000 111010001000 101010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • 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 word como is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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