This is an analysis of the poem O Gênio Da Humanidade that begins with:

Sou eu quem assiste às lutas,
Que dentro d'alma se dão, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXX bXbXXXXXXX XaXaaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110 11010111 11010110 100110 11111100 1011100 1001100 1111000 1101100 0100011 101110011 1111110001 10001111 1111010 100001100 11111110 1011010 1100110 110010 1001011 101110100 11010011 10111110 1101101 100110111 1001110 1101101 1011011 111110 10010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; o, com, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word com is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).

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  • summary of O Gênio Da Humanidade;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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