This is an analysis of the poem Cantigas Praianas:Vii-Tinha Momentos Amargos that begins with:

Tinha momentos amargos
Teu amor, que era tão doce......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXabXXX aXXXXXXb XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100 11011001 1101011 101101 11100110 101100100 10100010 0101111 11010100 111001100 11101100 1010011 10100100 101001100 01101110 1111110 1011001 0101000 11100100 1110011 10111010 11011010 11111100 1101100 10101101 1100111000 10110010100 111110 11111101 101101110 11101100 0110010 100101110 10111100 1010011100 110110 11011010 11010100 10111010 111111010 11011100 1101010 101100100 1111010 10110110 1111110 111101110 10101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.

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