This is an analysis of After Dark by Cesário Verde.
Prisoners bang on the bars of their cells -
A sound that rattles my nerves with shame!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbc bXda Xeaf aggc fXea XaaX aXed Xehf bhea ahaa Xgaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001101011 011101101 01011110110 1010001010 111110111 1101111100 0100110010 1111101 111001011 111010111101 110111010 01110001001 111011101 010110010 111010100100 100011100100 010101110 101101101 10111111 10100100101 110010101 0101011101 011100101 110101110111 10001001010 1100100100100 010101111 010101100010 10001110010 0101011010 010101011 1101001101 11111010110 011101101100 1011001110 10110110010 101000101 0101110111 1101001111 1101111101 100101010 1011110110 1100101010010 1011111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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