This is an analysis of the poem Num Bairro Moderno that begins with:

A Manuel Ribeiro
Dez horas da manhã; os transparentes ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXbXX bXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXcX XdXXe cXXXX XXXXX XXaXe XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX bXXXX dXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010 1101111000 10010101000 1010100111100 11010110010 0101010000 1011001000 10011101100 111101101000 110010110100 10011011000 1010111100 101101110 110101011100 11001110 11100101000 110100010000 10010101000 11101010110 10110001010000 10010000110 111001110000 111011011100 1111111001011 11101110100001 110001110010 1100101110 1111001100 11111101000 100110101000 11101101100 10001100100 111100110100 11111001000 11100111101100 101010010 1010100100 11101101100 10100100100 111010110100 1010001110 11100011000 110101001100 100111110100 101010100 1110011000 11000111110 101100101010 110110011110 11101011111 1110010110010 1101010110 11001010110 11001010 10101101001 11101110110 1101101011101 1111101000 1110100100 110100110 11010101100 1110011101000 10100011010 110110010110 100111011000 1101101111000 11001101100 110110010 1100101010 11101010010 1110100100 10100011110 11001001000 110001000100 1101100010 11010010000 11001010110100 1111010100 01100111100010 1000011110 11101100100 110001001000 1010010110110 110010110 111001001010 110010100101 1011010010 11101100100 10100101100 1111010100 1101001000 110001101110 1101001101100 101001011100 101001010000 1110100010 110110101010 1101100100 100101100 1010010100 110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, os, o, me, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e is 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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