This is an analysis of the poem A Ternura Do Mar that begins with:

No firmamento azul, cheio de estrelas de ouro
Ia boiando a lua indiferente e fria......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXbX aXaX XXXX XBAX XXXX aXaX XXcX aXXX XXXX XdXd XXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX cXXX XBAX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001010100010 1010010100011 01001100101001100 1001110 11110111110 10111111001000110 101100010100110 10000100 101100101010011 10010111000110 110011110010 10001000 100111001101100 11100101110100 01111010111 10010110 100101000010 11110111010111100 0101111001010111110 11110110 111011100101000 1010101011011100 1001001001000 1000100 101001110101100 010011011100110 101000111110 10011000 11010110101000 101111011110100 10111011100010 110110 110110011010 100001001110010 11010011011000110 110110 10001010111000 1000111000010 1010111110010 1110110 1000111010001010 101100011100 1101101101001000 1101000 1011010110010010110 1001001010100 111001010100100 0101011 1101010001100 100101111001 1101001000100 1111011 10011010000110 010111011001100 1011011100110 1100110 1111111010110 110011000010 101101010001100 0101010 1000101010010 101010101100 110100111100 1010110 10110111011010 10001001010000 1010101010100 1010100 10110010111000 1001011101010 10101101101000 101000100 1110011110111100 1000010111101 10001101100100 110011 101001010101011 1101001000010 1001011010100 11010010 111010010011000 1110111110110 011100010110110 100010 1011010110101110 10111100010 1100111101111100 110110 1011001101100 010011011100110 101000111110 10011000 11011100100 100010110011011 10110100110010 11001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de, o, e, teu, eu are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase submergindo connects the lines.

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  • summary of A Ternura Do Mar;
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