This is an analysis of the poem Confidência that begins with:

Maldição sobre vós, doutores da
lei! Maldição sobre vós, hipócritas!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXaX XXXXXb aXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXcXXa XXXXXX XXXXXX XXadXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101001 110110100 10001110010 1101010010010 1101000110101 100 10011011 10010100101 1010101100 110100 1101011000 101011000100 11011 1111010100 1000101010 1010001 11100101100 11110110111 1010110 11101110010 011010111011000 111001 111011010110 11010010100 110100 1101100110110 11101001000 111001011 111001100110 1010011100110 100101 110101101000 11010011000 10011 010110110110 10010111110 11010 111001100010 1100101100 1101100 1110111100 1101010100 111001 110101011100 110011000 111100 11110010110 101000111101 110100 1010110110 11110100100 110011 101110100 1011010110 110001110 10111011 10010100101 111000 10010000100 1111101101 111010 11010001000 1111010100 10110 11111001100 1101110110 10100 11010111100 1101001110 1100100 1110011011110 1101001100 101100 1110011100 1101101100 11010 11000100100 1001111111000 100110101 10010001000110 100011011 1100110 10111111010 10100111100 1011 1011010010 111011101000 110110 101010100110 1100100011001 1110 101110100 1110110100 1000110 0101001110 1010101011 101010 101110010100 100011011110 11100 10011011000 11001011110010 110100 111001010110 11110100110 11000110 1100001111101 100010011000 1010101 110101011010 110101100 11100 11011001011010 11101001110 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 133
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, pagando are repeated.

    The author used the same word maldi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, ias, rio are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.

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  • summary of Confidência;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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