This is an analysis of the poem Lágrimas De Sangue that begins with:

Ao pé das aras no clarão dos círios
Eu te devera consagrar meus dias; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXbXXXcXccXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXcXXXbXXXXXbaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXdXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 148,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011011 11010100110 101110 11101101110 111001000100 10110 1111101110 1001001011100 1101010 1101110110 1010010010 00101100 10101100101 11000100110 100111 111100101 1101110100 11011 1001010110 0101110011100 11110 101100101100 0101100110100 11010 1010 111110 101111010010 101110 1000110100 11001100110 1001110 11011110001 111001010100 11001 11001110001 10011101000 110101 11111001100 11010011010 0111000 1100010100 1001001010000 011010 11111001 11100 101100011010 1011100 1011101100 11001010100 111000 10110011010 0110100100 1110100 11010010100 10011001000 1101100 011001011100 1011010100 1011101 1110101100 100100101011110 11111 111101101 01010001011 11110 10110101110 11011100111100 111011 1101010100 10110110011 11100100 10101101010 1011101011 111011100 100110110110 1000100100 1111000 1001011010100 1101001000 1110100 1110010100100 111001010100 11001100 110011110 1010111000 1100100 1010 111000 10010110100 011111100 111010000100 10101100 11110110 11010101100 1101011010 1110100 10101111011110 101110110100 100110 1100100111100 010001110110 110110 1100110111100 11010011100 11001110 11011010100 1101111100 111001100 10010100110100 10011110110 1010000 100110001000 101110100110 1101100 111010110100 11101011100 1100100 110101010100 100101110100 111000 111010100 11101001000 110110 10101001000 10100111010 1100010 111000100 1010100100 111100 101101011000 1110001000 110100 1101010100 11010001000 11100 1010001010000 11010110100 100011 10101011000 10011101100 110011 10110 1101 110001101100 1110011 111111011010 111001110110 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4607
  • Average number of words per stanza: 847
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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, me, n are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tudo, o, no are repeated.

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  • summary of Lágrimas De Sangue;
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