This is an analysis of the poem Cristalizações that begins with:

A Bettencourt Rodrigues, meu amigo.
Faz frio. Mas, depois duns dias de aguaceiros, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXb XXXXX XXXXX bXbbX XXXXX XXXXX cccXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXc XbXXb XXXXX XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XbXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101011 1111011001000 10101001001 01011011000 11001001100 1001001001010 1011001001100 111000110011 0101011000 111011011100 1000100100 1111010111010100 10000101100 1010011 1100011000 11100101100 111101011101010 1011011100 11101010110010 10010101010 1101010100 11111100100101 1010010111000 10100111100 1010001101 111010010010 0110100111100 110010101100 1001111001100 110100111000 110111000 11111110111 1010100111 11010011 1010101000 1001011101 110111111110 1001111000 1001010000 11101001010 1001100100 10011010001000 1101110100 11100010100 111010101110 110110100 1100101001101100 1101001000100 101001011100 110110001000 11001011001101100 11110100100110 0010011010000 1111000110 101010010100 11010010010000 1100011011100110 1100101100 10010100001 11101101110 11010111100 100101011011100 1100100110 1110001001100 11011001100 10111100101 1011011001100 1010010110 11010101000 10010101100 1110011101 01001001101100 111010011110 11100011110 1001010100 101000110010 11010101101000 101111010 11010101000 11100100100 100100101110 111011001101100 10101110000 1101101100 1110101000 11100101000 1100111010100 10001001110 1001010001111 1100100100 1101100010 101001011010010 1010010100 1001100100 110100100100 11100010100 110000111011 1110110010010 11000100111000 1010010100 1110010010 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; e, o, os are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Cristalizações;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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