This is an analysis of the poem O Ateu E O Santo that begins with:

Um ateu, um misantropo
Fabulista, como Esopo...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXXXX XXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011000 100010100 1011010000 111010 010000110 1010010 110100110 101101110 11110110 1100110 11011100 100101000 101000100 1100100 10100110 101110010 1110110 1000100 1110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; um, o are repeated.

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

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