This is an analysis of the poem Um Canto Do Século that begins with:
Debalde nos meus sonhos de ventura
Tento alentar minha esperança morta...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXab XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX XbaXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXbc aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX aaXXXX XXXXXX bacXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100010 1010010100010 1101110 0101011001000 1110100101100 110010 101100111000 01111111010 101100 11100101100 11110010010 11010 100111110010 111011011100 1100110 11011010010 11111010000 111010 101110100 110001010100 11000110 11001001010 10100100100 1110010 1101011100 011010001000 1101000 111011010 1001101100 1101000 11010101000 10101100111 1011110 01100101000 110101100100 011110 11011111000 11010011000 10101000 11101110100 100011010110 110010 1101110110 110110110010 01000100 1110101100 110011100 110100 110101111000 11010011010 11011 101010011100 101010100 010100 110011010110100 111011010100 1101101 11010111100 11010110100 110011 1110110100 1010100110100 110011 111011000100 1110110001000 110110 11010101100 100100101110 110111 1001011010 11001101100 100111 101011101100 1001111000 1101100 11010111010 10111101000 1110110 10110010110 1110010011010 10110100 11110100100 1111110001000 1101000 1011010001 100010011011 11011 1101001010 1100110100 1001100 101010110100 110001100110 1101110 1101000110 1110110110 110111 10101101010 01011110011010 110100 0110010100100 11110110010 1100100 110111110 11110010100 110010 1011010110 10011101000 111101 10101010001 11010010100 1101100 111011011 11001101000 111000 1011111110 11010011110 111010 11011010000 1000101111000 1100100 1101101100 10101111100 1001110 11100010111000 11011111100 0010110 10101011010 10101011110 1100101 11101000110 101101101100 111100 1010101011 010011100110 10100110 10111100100 01011111110 010100 111101100 1011001100 1010100 1100100110 011001000 1101100 11100110100 11100111010 100100 1110100100 111000110 111100 101101100 110011101100 1011010 101010010 101011000 100110 1110111101010 11101011100 11001000 010001011100 11101100100 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 162
- 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.
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; o, as, de, que, e, meu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, que, a are repeated.
The author used the same words debalde, meu, fora at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rio is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Um Canto Do Século;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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