This is an analysis of the poem Minha Terra that begins with:

Todos cantam sua terra,
Também vou cantar a minha,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX bXXbXcXb XBXBXXXX aXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XaXX XXadXeXX XaXaXXXa XXcXXdXX XeXXXXee aaXXXXXX XBXB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,12,4,8,8,8,8,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 1110010 1110110 101110 10110100 1100100 110111000 1001111010 1011011 10011010 10001010 101110 10100100 10000011 101010100 11010001 11010010 0101001 11110110 11110110 10101000 01010010 110101000 11101110 11111100 1100100 111010100 111101100 1010001100 111111010 101101000 11001010 111000 101001 101000110 110111 1100100 11101000 11001000 110110 1101100 11110010 1101100 1101110 1111100 10001010 10110100 1110011100 11011011 1011000 10011010 11101000 1010111000 11001000 101101100 110100 1010110 110010 111001100 1100100 110111000 1101000 11000100 1001010 11011000 11100100 1001100 1101100 10011000 11101010 1110100 1010010 1101011100 100110 11011010 100101111 1101110 111010 1001010 1001010 1010110 1110110 11101100 111010 1111110 10011100 101100 1111010 11100010 10001010 111010010 101111110 1011110 11100110 111010100 1101101 10110100 110101110 10100100 111011000 10101000 10100100 1101010 1100110 11001010 1111010 110101100 11010100 1110011000 01010100 01001000 11010100 11010010 0101001 11110110 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hei, deu, desde, pelo, de are repeated.

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