This is an analysis of the poem Tonala that begins with:
Pintada por um alfarrero,
debaixo dos cardos maciços,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXaXXaXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111000 10011010 101010100 1000110 100010100010110 100101100100 1010001011110110 110100101100 100 1011000110010 11011001100100 11111010 110101110011 11010010010 110110 10110 1011110 11110 10110100 11011 10 100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, e are repeated.
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- summary of Tonala;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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