This is an analysis of the poem A Voz Dos Sinos that begins with:

Tarde triste e silenciosa
De vila de beira-mar:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX XXbXXX X XbbXX c XX X XbX XaXX dXXc XXXeb XXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXeb XXXc XXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXb XXXbbX XXXX XbXXbXXXXXX bXfX X XXXb XX XXB XXXAXXX bXXX XXXXXb XXXX bbbXXXXX XbbXXXXX XXXfbXbe XXc XXXbe b XXXXXXX bXc XXXX XbXXX X XXbfXXXe X XXB BXbXXXXXXXXd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,1,5,1,2,1,3,4,4,5,6,8,4,4,6,8,4,6,4,11,4,1,4,2,3,7,4,6,4,8,8,8,3,5,1,7,3,4,5,1,8,1,3,12,2,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,8,3,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111000 0100101 1011010 1110011 1101100 0110011 1111010 11001101 11010100 1100100 1100100 11011000 11001010 1000100010 0100100 111010 1111111110 01011001 1101100 1010000 10110000 01000110 11101100 0101000 100011 110001100 11100100 1011000101 111011000 11001100 110 100110100 11011010 1011001 101101111 10 1100101 0101000 100110010 010010100 10001100 01001100 10100100 0100110 1101000 010011 11010100 1011110 10110100 11011100 100110100 11011010 101110111 10 100111110 11111000 11001100 01010110 101001 10001100 11011000 1011100110 01001010 01001000 100110100 10011000 1111000100 1101001110 11100 100101000 101101000 0100011 100110100 11011010 1101010 10 010110100 1011100 101110 100001110 0111110 100110 1010111 1101000 100011100 010101100 10011110 10110110 11100100 101010 10101010 11101100 01000100 1000010110 0100011000 1110111110 1111100 10010110 11100100 1101011 01010100 1 100110100 110101 100001110 10 101110 0111010 110100100 11011111000 010111010 110111000 100111000 1101101 10101011 1010100 10110010 1011011 10100110 11010010 101000100 110101100 1111100 10110100 111010 101100 1011011 100011010 10110100 10101000 010101 101011000 1011010 101010010 101001010 010001 1011000 11110100 1001010000 1100010 100101 1010110 11010 111000010 111001110 1110111000 100010100 1101111 10111100 1111010100 100101010 1011101 1110100010 11100 010011010 1010110 1011101000 111101 11001110 010111 10011100 11001100 101010010 101110 010010110 11011000 0100100 110101000 10101000 10010000 01111100 010101000 01010111110 1111100 1110110 1011110100 10110100 1001010 10101000 111011000 10110010 1011110 1010100 111101011 11001010 101110 10111100 100010110 101000101 111010100 1010011000 0101000 1101010 11001010 110110 101101100 010111010 1111010 10100110 1010110 110100100 1111100 101110 1011010 10101000 1011101 10011101 10100010 101000101 10000100 10001000 10101000 11100100 1100100 1101101 1101010 1101100 110101 110011 1101010 0100011 1101000 0111001100 1110100 111110 11011010 101110110 100001100 10101001 1010110 11010100 1010011 1011100 1001010 110100 1110110100 11001011 010110 1111010 0100110100 10100010 1100000 1010110 1111101 11111011 110100100 1001111000 1010111010 10010000 10101011 1101100 0101100 0111010 100010100 11110010 1001011 1010110 110100100 1111100 1111010 1001110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, que, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nem, que, uma, o, como, de, sino, n, t are repeated.

    The author used the same words nem, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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