This is an analysis of the poem Streets of my São Paulo that begins with:
Where is the living love,
Where is it?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XA BcX DcA BaA DXA aee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 100 10110 111011 101 101110 11011 100 10110 1100101 100 101110 0100101 100 010001 001100 100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it 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 word/phrase it connects the lines.
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