This is an analysis of the poem Sombra De D. Juan that begins with:

Cerraste enfim as pálpebras sombrias!...
E a fronte esverdeou da morte à sombra,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXXXX bXXXXa XXXXcd XXbXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXeXd XdfgXfD XXXXd XXXXD XhXXD XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXcXXXX XXXXXc XXeXXX XXXXXX bcXXXcd XXXXXD XXXXXD XhgXXD XX beXXeXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,7,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,7,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,2,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011010 1011001110 1010100 11001101100 101101101000 110100 110010101100 1101111100 1100100 1100101000 1110000010000 1000100 101011000 10001111000 11010100 11101111100 100110110011 110110 111000111100 101010110001 1011000 110101101000 1110011110011 10100100 11010010101 101110101 1010100 11101011010 111001101000 110101 10110100100 1011011010 11011100 111011010110 11110110010 10011 1001001110 1101010001 1011001 1101001000 11011100100 110011000 110010010011 1011100111 11101000 110100110100 11010100100 1100100 1 11111100100 1110011100 1001100 1111101000 1111001100 1110110 1001101100100 10001111000 0100110 1011100111000 110010100 1100010 1010100110 10100100110 11010 10011100101110 111001011 1101011 1 010011 110100101 10101001101 110110110010 101 1111 110111101 1101101101 10111011010 1101 1011 10010010100 0101110001 111101110110 10100 1111 110100110100 111000101 11011011011 111100 1111 110110110100 11010011010 1110100100 111100100 1101100111110 110111110 11101101100 11111000100 1010111110 100111010110 011001010110 110101100100 1011001100 110101100 101101110 1100011110 11101101100 111011001101 101001010010 10001011 1 1010111000 11001001010 11011 1010110100 11101011100 101111 1000111110 1111010010 1101100 100101101000 10001001100 11000110 1011111010 110010001 1010110 1011111111 11011110 110100 11011010100 100010010110 110100 10111111010 10110100011 1000110 1 1101001100110 1101100 010100 1110 1100110 11011 110110110100 1001 1111 101010 010100 111011 1101111010 01100 1101100 110110 11010 111011 1110010001001000 01001 1101 111001000 101100 111011 1 1 1 1010010101110 1100111000 100111 100001010110 11011100 10011
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

    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; te, e, o, de, que, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, quero, eu, que, ' are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word juan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases e, ' connect the lines.

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