This is an analysis of the poem 'Benedicite' that begins with:
Bendito o que na terra o fogo fez, e o teto
E o que uniu à charrua o boi paciente e amigo;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXX XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111011011110 111101011101011 111100010011111100 11101111010110 11111010111001000 110101101111100 11111101111011000 1111101001100100 11110110101110110 1111001101111010 11110111111011000 110010111111100 100010000100100 10110110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, e, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is 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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