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

Morreu um trovador - morreu de fome.
Acharam-no deitado no caminho:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXXXXX XaXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXb XXbXXXXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,4,6,13,10,6,6,8,4,3,3,3,8,6,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001001 10011001100 0110110111 100111010000 111010010000 10110100101 11011001110 11001011010 10110011010 1010111110 1101011010 1011101110 10011001000 1011110010 1001011010010 101011011010 11010010110 11011010010 1010111001 0111101110 110110010100 010001001100 111111101 01001010100 1011110010 1100110110 111010100 10110100100 1101001011 111101110110 10100011000 1110110110010 10111000110 1101101100 01010011100 1001001011011 11100101111 10010111000 111110111100 11011010010 0110011100 1111001001000 00101001010 1100110010000 1111101101 1000100101010 101011110 11100110010100 1001101000 1001011000 110111110100 11010111010 1101001100010 100101010100 11001001000 110100110 101011110 10010110110 11101011100 110110011010 110010110110 1101010010 10011101 1101011010100 10010101000 111100100100 10110101011110 11010101100 1110011000 1110111100 1101001100 1100111010 1101110100 111011011000 101111011110 111010101000 1111101101 101111001100 1001110011100 1101101100 1100110010 10011001010 10111111010 01111010100 11100101100 1101110110 111101010100 111111110 1101011010 110110111010 110110100 10011011000 0101011100 11110100100 100110110100 10101110 01000101001 1111 1110 11111101 10101011100 110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, um, os, que, e, se, bem, de, nem are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Ii;
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  • history of its creation;
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