This is an analysis of the poem Spleen that begins with:
Fora, na vasta noute, um vento de procela
Erra, aos saltos, uivando, em rajadas e em fúria; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXX aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011100100 101101001100111 1110010101010 101001001101100 1100011100100 10101101000110 11000011010000 10010101000110 111110111000 1101101000100 1001010011100 11110111001110 10100110100010 110010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ria is repeated).
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