This is an analysis of the poem Na Cidade that begins with:
Eu, que sou feio, sólido, leal,
A ti, que és frágil, assustada, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX cXXX aXXa XXXX XbXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 011111000 10100111000 10100100010 1001011100 1100111010110 101001011000 11001000111 110110001100 1110100100 1010100110 111010110 10011110110 1110101011000 1110110010110 1100110100 10110101000 1100010111100 1100101100 101001010000 1010001010010 1110110010 101010010100 1001101100 100110100 1001011100 100011010000 1010011100 1011111000 1110110011100 01101111010 1111011010 100101001100 01001110010 110101100100 10001011110 110011100 1000010100110 10100110100 101010011 111010001101000 111110010100 01010100 11110010000 111101011000 1011010010 1010010110 11010001010 11101110100 11001010110 0111111000 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, e, te, de, que are repeated.
The author used the same word e at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Na Cidade;
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