"Vida Toda Linguagem" de Mário Faustino: um soneto (quase) soneto

Abstract

This article discusses the formal elements (meter, a rhyme scheme, line breaks) of two different poems published, posthumously, in 1966 by the Brazilian poet Mário Faustino. The first, “Soneto”, presents a quite different design from the conventional graphic disposition of verses on the printed page. However, once visually rearranged according to the line breaks of a traditional sonnet, “Soneto” follows exactly its predetermined metric system. The second poem also expands this idea. Despite of seeming to be composed in free verse, “Vida toda linguagem” puts into practice several long-established metric variations.