This is an analysis of the poem Os Doentes that begins with:

Como uma cascavel que se enroscava
A cidade dos lázaros dormia... ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaX XXX X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Xbbc XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX X XXXX bXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XcXX XXXX XXXd XdXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbc bXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 126
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 555
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; de, o, os, n, estas, que, um are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words os, o 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 as, vel, tica, nica, a, bias, dio, cie, ter, ria, cio, o, nios, pulo, dito 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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