This is an analysis of the poem Cantigas Praianas:Vi-Sobe O Sol? A Noite Desce? that begins with:
Sobe o sol? A noite desce?
Dia e noite são-me iguais:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 10111110 11110100 1011111 11101010 1011011110 11111100 111010101 1110100 110011 11100111100 1111110 1101001100 11011000 11011110 1100111110 11110010 11111011 101011010 111110 100111010 1101100 10111100 010000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; noite, o, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.
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