This is an analysis of the poem Sugestões Do Crepúsculo that begins with:

Ao pôr do sol, pela tristeza
Da meia-luz crepuscular,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaB XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXB X XXXX XaXX XXXX XXaX XdXb XXXX cbXX XXXX X XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX X XXXd XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110100 1111000 101001010 0111 1001001110 1011010010 11001010110 111111100 1010001001 1010011000 1001001000 11000100110 100101110 11001000 0110100100 011001010 1011100010100 10111000100 1111110100 0111 1 10011001 100111001 10100110 101110110 111010110 110011010 1100011000 1100010100 1010010000 1001011011 11111100 10101010 100101000 1010100110 1011110 10001101100 10010101100 10010010010 10101111 110011011 10010111110 011001110110 1010010 101000010 110010100010 111110111 1111001010 101000100 11001101111 1010110000 101101000 10011101 1 110011100 111011100 01001010110 110100100 10011011100 1000110011 10110010100 101011111 11010100 1101011100 1010111100 1000101000 010010011000 10011001011 1010010000 10011100 0101101110 010111011 111101101 0100001100 10100110 1011110100110 101010100 11011111 1011011010 11101000100 100100100 1110010100 1 01010011000 1101000 1111001110 101101110 0101011100 1101110 110011100 101011 01010001010 11110100 10111000 10011000 111010000 10100011000 100101100 01110100 1101110 11000010101 110111000 11100010 101101000 11100110 01001100 10100100 100110100 1111000 10100101 0110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; e, de, mais, o, quando are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words toda, de are repeated.

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

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