This is an analysis of the poem Solidão, Meu Vício that begins with:

Solidão, querida amiga!
Te amo e te desejo, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXXX XX XX XX XXXXab XXXX XcX bXXX XXcX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,2,2,2,6,4,3,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010010 11011100 101110 1111000 10010100 1110010 111001 1010100 10100100 10011 1101100 100111 1011000 10011 10101 1001110 111100 11100 1100110 111010 110110 1110 110110 110100 110100 1011010 11110010 11101100 1001100110 1001000 1001110 111010 111001110 1011100 1011100 11100111 10011 1001010 11101110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word momento at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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