This is an analysis of the poem Poema Negro that begins with:

Para iludir minha desgraça, estudo.
Intimamente sei que não me iludo. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXaXb XXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXbbX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXa XbXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bbcXXc XXbXXX XXXXbX XXXXXb XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001010100 10001111100 1011110100110 1110010100 0100001000110 111100011100 01001101100 10111001010 1100010000 1001011001100 111011110100 11011100100 11111101110100 1101100100110 11011101010 11011110 100010111 11010010110 01101001000 1010110000 11011011001 100110101010011 111101000110100 1110100111001 101010110 101001100110 11110101000 101010011100 110010100100 100100011100 10011001010 10110011100 101100101100 011101011000 10010110100 11100110100 110111001010 1110101110 0101101010 110101001010 11111011011110 1110111101000 1001111000 110010010100 100111011100 11001010100 110001001100 10110111101 11110110100 1111010100 111011110 11101000110 11101101100 0101100110 1000100100 1001001110010 0101111100110 100111001010 10011011001 1011111000110 111010100100 1101111010 10100101010 1000110011 1110101101 1011010011110 101010101100 10110101010 010011100110 110001101000 111010101100 10110110010 101100001100 1110110100 01110110110 01011101000 1100010110101 1100101110 111010101100 101100011010 11010010010 110101001 1010011101 10011001100 0100011010 10010110110 11011000111000 100011110100 110001101000 1010011010 1101101110 110001101010 11001110101 0100000110 111100110110 111101010001 11000101000 101101011100 10001001010 110001000110 1011010001100 11100101000 1010111011 11011010110 1101000110 1100100110110010 1100100110010 10100000110 11010110111 11001101 111101111100 11110011001 1110101010 110000001010 1100110010 1100101100 10110110100 10111011010 10101110010 1011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, nio, era, decl, que, de, vi, dorme are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is repeated.

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

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