This is an analysis of the poem A Criança Do Meu Passado that begins with:

A criança chorou longe,
enquanto o tempo de hoje ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX bXa XXX XXXXXbXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 10011101 1111011 101100100 10011011 1010101 1011010 10111100 1100110 1101110 011011000 1110100 1100011000 1100110 10110110 010010 111101100 1010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; os is repeated.

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