This is an analysis of the poem Fragmentos Da 'Arte De Amar':I-Dizer Mal Das Mulheres É Costume that begins with:

Dizer mal das mulheres e costume
De todo o amante que não foi feliz:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXaX bXbXbX XXbXbX XXXXXX bXbXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100101 010101011110 110010001 101011110 110011011101 111111 10101100111010 1110011011 01010001110 11001100 11100100100 111111 111100001011100 11101100100 1010011000110 11101110 01010110110 111111 110011000100 1101110110 11100010100 1011101 110110111110 1101111 1010110011010 1001110111111 101001111010 11000100 1001010 111111 1010010011100 10011110100 11010011010 10101010 10101101000 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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

    The poet repeated the same word fiz at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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