MIVES: um sistema para identificação automática de padrões métricos de versificação em prosa literária brasileira

Abstract

In poetry, various forms of parallelism are remarkable, at various levels of description (syntactic, morphological, phonological), including metrical structures of versification.Although literary prose is not characterized by the predominance of such structures, studies indicate the presence of subliminal metric structures in the prose of Euclides da Cunha, setting the precedent for researches in a still vast field of possibilities around Brazilian literary prose.In Portuguese, the system of metrification is syllabic-accentual and the analytic decomposition of such patterns is known as scansion, and its result is not unequivocal and can vary contextually.This type of prose analysis can be defined as a non-trivial activity that, if performed in a non-automatic way, may require, depending on the size of the work, hours, days or even months of work.This work presents a system, MIVES (Mining Verse Structure), developed for automation of scansion and analysis of metric structures in Brazilian literary prose, starting with a text, extracting and processing sentences, applying possible rules and variations, and displaying results with diverse visualizations for analysis and evaluation. The system was validated through prose and poetry reference texts with known scansion, and new prose literary texts were analyzed and their metrical structures are described.