This is an analysis of the poem A Duas Flores that begins with:

São duas flores unidas,
São duas rosas nascidas...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXbabbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 1110100 10110100 10011010 110100100 110101 100110110 1110100 01100011 101010100 1001001000 1111011 100110110 111001010 11000110 10110011100 101100110 10110011 10011100 101000010 1011101 10110110 110101100 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; de is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words s, como, na are repeated.

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  • summary of A Duas Flores;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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