This is an analysis of 'Benedicite' by Olava Bilac.
Bendito o que na terra o fogo fez, e o teto
E o que uniu à charrua o boi paciente e amigo;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXX XXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 1001111011011110 111101011101011 111100010011111100 11101111010110 11111010111001000 110101101111100 11111101111011000 1111101001100100 11110110101110110 1111001101111010 11110111111011000 110010111111100 100010000100100 10110110100110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
o, e, que
Anaphora
e