This is an analysis of the poem O Canto Que Me Ensinaste that begins with:
O CANTO que me ensinaste foi virgem e livre:
todas as águas balançaram nelle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110011011 101110001 1011010001 101011110001 110111 1101111010 1111010111100101111010 11010110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nelle, o, um, v, todo are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words todos, foi are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nelle is repeated).
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