This is an analysis of the poem Castro Alves From Brazil that begins with:
Castro Alves from Brazil, for whom did you sing?
Did you sing for the flower? For the water ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbca XbdXe fdfe XeXXf fbbf egefeg XeXcga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,5,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101000111011 01110101010 110101001 01100100111 00101111001 111100110 1110111 1101111 110010011 011101 111010101 101101 11011001 1010100101 11011010010 010110001 010110001 01011101 01010010 111111011 01010101001 0110100101 10111010101010 110100111010 1011011101 101100101 11111111 1111101101 1110101010 101000111111 0110011 1110010100 011100100010 1110010111001 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, you, sing, to, those, against are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, against, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word blood at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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