This is an analysis of the poem Inania Verba that begins with:
Ah! quem há de exprimir, alma impotente e escrava,
O que a boca não diz, o que a mão não escreve? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXX XXX
- 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: 1110100101001100 11010111101110 101010011111 101001101111000 11000111100010 01011100110001 101001001000101 101110100110 11110100010010 111010111000 110111111111100 101111011101011100010 11100011101010 111000101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; o, que, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.
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- summary of Inania Verba;
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