This is an analysis of the poem Toda A America that begins with:

Onde estão os teus poetas, América?
Onde estão eles que não compreendem...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXX X XXXXXXcbX X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXccXXXXX XadXXXXdX XXXXXX XXX Xda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,1,9,1,22,9,6,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110100 1101011100 111101000 1110100010100 11110011010 11100010110 100110 111001100111 10011001 11100111110 10001010100010 111011110 1100110 111100011000 10000100100 1100111000 11011100 111111010 110011110 111101001100 1101111 1101110100 11010111110 111010111010 11110100100100 10100110100 10010001011100 11001011100010000 11010101010 101100010 1100100100001101010 1101110100 1101011111000 1001110 110101111010 100111000010 110001001100 111000 110101111010 110000 110100110111110 1101001100100 1101110 11010110101000 11001001100 1101011110000 110101011000 11110111011 1101010100001 10100 11010010101100 1001010 1101011100011 100 11011101010 11011000101010 11010111100 10010110 1111 11001010001110 11000101011011 100100100100 100101001100 110111100100 001001011000 01001011000 111011100111 10100111 101011000 11100110010100100 11111010110100 11011011001100 10011011101 01011011000 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, que, de, e, essas, os, ser, sua are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words onde, os, e, a, subst are repeated.

    The author used the same word onde 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 sabedoria, pria are repeated).

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