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

Recitado por Dias Braga no espetáculo
comemorativo do 50o. aniversário do ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XXXX XXXX XXX XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001101011000 1000001110001 1000001010 0101011101 1111011100 10000110000 110010111 101000110011 110110110000 1010101101100 1110010010 1110111111100 111110010100 110100101000 1100100010 101001001000 111101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • 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; o, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Soneto;
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  • history of its creation;
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