This is an analysis of the poem Os Pobres that begins with:
Aí vêm pelos caminhos,
Descalços, de pés no chão,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa XXXa XXXa bXbX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110100 1000111 110110100 1000100 101101110 1111100 101100100 1011001 1101100 1101100 101011000 1110101 1111010 111100 1101101 100101 11011010 11001000 110110100 110110 1001100 1010010 1101000 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, t, m are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pedem is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word o 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 o connects the lines.
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