This is an analysis of O Negro by Augosto dos Anjos.

Oh! Negro, oh! Filho da Hotentóia ufana
Teus braços brônzeos como dois escudos,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX X X X X X X X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths: 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Metre: 1101101100100 111101010 11100110010 1000001000010 1010101000 1000111100 110100110100 10110110101000 110001111 111010110 10101110100 11101110100 11011111101110 1000011000
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

dois, e, os

Epiphora

os