This is an analysis of the poem A Cavalgada that begins with:
A lua banha a solitária estrada...
Silêncio!... mas além, confuso e brando, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010100100010 1011100110 111011110000 110001001000 1100110110 11001101100 111001111000 11001110000 111100111100 1100011001100 11111101100 11101011001 1101101000 010001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; v, m, o 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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