This is an analysis of the poem Dona Flor that begins with:
Ela é tão meiga! Em seu olhar medroso
Vago como os crepúsculos do estio, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXb XXX aXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100101110100 10101100110 10100101110 10100111000 101100010100 01101010 1010100010 1001011100110 1100101010 111110010 10111101010010 101111001100110 1010001101000 11011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word treme is repeated.
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