This is an analysis of the poem Ondas... that begins with:
Ilha de atrozes degredos!
Cinge um muro de rochedos...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100100 11100100 110100100 10010100 11000100 10010011 1100110100 1101000100 10100110 1101010 1111000 11110110 101010100 1011000100 010011010 100110010 10110010 111001 110100110 101001010 1011010 11010011 111100 11110110 1101001010 11010100100 10100011 10001011 1110101110 01011100 10011000110 0100010 1010000 11101110 11110111 11010111 100111000 101010100 11101010 1101101100 11010110 1101101 100010100 10101000 10111001 111111010000 1111110 1010001 1010000 1110001100 1011010 011100100 1111110 11110101 101001100 110011100 111010 1110100 11001011 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 67
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 23
- Average number of words per stanza: 5
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, no, s are repeated.
The author used the same words que, no, s at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines perde is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words cios, perde at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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