This is an analysis of the poem Resposta Do Jeca Tatu that begins with:

Eu sou o Jeca Tatu.
Vancê só sabe de lezes...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXX XbXXXcXX dXXXXc XcXXXXX XXXXdXeX XXXXdcXXXc XXdXXXXXXX XXdXf XXXdX XXXcXXXaXdXc XGXXf XXcXXbXX XXbcXefXcXX XXXXXXc cXhX fXXbXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXcXXXX XXXXcXXhXXXGXXcXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,7,8,10,10,5,5,12,5,8,11,7,4,7,10,9,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001 111010 11111111 1111110 11000111 1111110 10110 110011 111100 111100 1111100 11010100 1001010 1101110 010110 101100 11011001 111100 11110110 1100010 11101100 0111110 11110 111111 0100010 011100 1100010 111011 1011101000 1110110 1111100 110110 111101000 110111 1010010 100100 111100 10111 111110 1110010 110110100 1010010 11001000 10101110 11001010 10111 110100 11101110 1100110 11011011 110010000 1111 11101 10110000 100101 10111 10111101 1011010 1001000 111001011 1101000 1111101 110111 110101010 101011010 111100 11101010 1100100 11010110 110111 111011 110110100 101011 1101110 1100010110 110101 1011010 1101100110 101001 11110 1111100 101101 1101010 1110110 1110110 101001 11001000 110101 101011001 110100 10101100 1110010 1110011 1011010 10010101 11111 111001101 10011010 11100010 1110110100 100111 100100 111100 1101100 1110111100 101001010 111110 10010110 1011001010 1011010 11011 1101111 10111 110011 111000 111011 1010010 111010 1111100 1011001 1111100 11111 111111 1000 111110 11111100 1111010 11100100 111000 111100 1010110 0101011 11101000 10100010 1111100 10110010 11110100 100110 11001000 101001010 1010110 111111 110100110 110010 1100100 111111011 111001 0111001 111101 101001 11100111 1101110 1110110110 111110 110110 111100 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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, tem, ro, que, de are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words vanc, pruqu 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 ro, ia, o are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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