This is an analysis of the poem Desengano that begins with:
A pensionista pálida que gosta
(Fundada pretensão!) que a digam bela, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaX XXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0100010110 100100101010 111011100 1011110011100 11101100100 1110001000 10011111010 110111001010 10101011010 101000101110 1001001011100 111001010100 11010111100 11011101100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word essa is repeated.
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