This is an analysis of the poem U Poeta Du Sertão that begins with:

Si chora o pinho
Im desafio gemedô...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 110010 11101011 010111 1101 1100101 110110 10101110 111011 101111 110011000 111 1111100 1010111 110110000 11010 111101 110101 1011111 11000 1111110 01011000 11010 110110 1011100 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • 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; o is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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