Read excerpts from poems Next:
(1) Poem of the beloved's eyes
Rio de Janeiro, 1959
Vinicius de Moraes, Paulo Soledade
oh my beloved
what eyes are yours
are night piers
full of goodbye
are soft docks
trailing lights
that shine far away
Far in the pitches...
(…)
(2)The wife
Rio de Janeiro, 1933
Vinicius de Morais
Sometimes on these cold and foggy nights
Where silence is born from the monotonous and quiet noises
This strange vision of a calm woman
Coming from the emptiness of my still eyes
Come and spy on my immobility.
(…)
We can note that the verses that make up each poem and their respective stanzas they have a different metric (poetic measure). Look:
O / my / my a / ma
That the / children / yours
Are / pier / in / tur
I filled / the / of a / God
Are / do / cas / man
Tri/lhan/ do/lu
What / shine / lham / lon
Lon/ge/dos/ pitches
In (1), each verse has four poetic syllables, that is, they are all tetrasyllable verses.
Sometimes / sometimes /, not / at / night / fri / as / and / not / flights (12 poetic syllables)
On/de o/ si/ len/cio/ nas/ ce/ dos/ noise/dos/ mo/node/to/nos/ e/ man/sos (16 poetic syllables)
E/that is/tra/nha/vis/are/of/woman/cal/ma (10 poetic syllables)
Sur/gin/from/from/empty/from/my/the/children/ to/from (12 poetic syllables)
Come/ es/cheep/ mi/nha i/mo/bi/li/da/de. (9 poetic syllables)
In (2), it is noted that the measure of each verse is different.
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These types of metrics within the stanzas give them a certain rating:
a) simple stanzas: are those that have verses with only one measure.
Example:
Friend's Sonnet - Vinicius de Moraes
Anyway, after so many past mistakes
So much retaliation, so much danger
Behold, the old friend reappears in another
Never lost, always found.
(…)
See that all verses in this stanza are decasyllables (they have ten poetic syllables each), thus characterizing a single stanza.
End/, from/after/from/tan/to er/ro/pas/to//from
Tan/tas/re/ta/lia/tions/, tan/to/pe/la//go
Behold / res / sur / ge / no / other / old / mi / / go
Nun/ca/per/di/do/, sem/pre/reen/con/tra//do.
b) compound stanzas:are those that combine larger or smaller verses.
Example:
(2) The wife
Rio de Janeiro, 1933
Vinicius de Morais
Sometimes on these cold and foggy nights
Where silence is born from the monotonous and quiet noises
This strange vision of a calm woman
Coming from the emptiness of my still eyes
Come and spy on my immobility.
Notice again how different the measurements of the verses of this stanza are:
Sometimes / sometimes /, not / at / night / fri / as / and / not / flights (12 poetic syllables)
On/de o/ si/ len/cio/ nas/ ce/ dos/ noise/dos/ mo/node/to/nos/ e/ man/sos (16 poetic syllables)
E/that is/tra/nha/vis/are/of/woman/cal/ma (10 poetic syllables)
Sur/gin/from/from/empty/from/my/the/children/ to/from (12 poetic syllables)
Come/ es/cheep/ mi/nha i/mo/bi/li/da/de. (9 poetic syllables)
By Mariana Rigonatto
Graduated in Letters
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
RIGONATTO, Mariana. "Types of stanzas: simple and composed"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/literatura/tipos-estrofes-simples-composta.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
