This is an analysis of the poem Um Beijo that begins with:
Foste o beijo melhor da minha vida,
Ou talvez o pior...Glória e tormento, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 11101011010 1101101100 10011011000 100110010100 1011110011100 1011110111000 1111010011000 11011101000 101001111100 1001100011010 11101110100 101110111001100 10100110100 1101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, me, e are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words contigo, e are repeated.
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- summary of Um Beijo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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