This is an analysis of the poem Primeiras Vigílias that begins with:
Dos revoltos lençóis sobre o deserto
Despejava-se, em ondas silenciosas, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001011100 1000111101000 1110101000 0110110100 100101100010 1010101000 11010111000 11011101000 101010010110 101011000 11001110111100 10101001110 1001101100 1101101000110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Primeiras Vigílias;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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