Poem Analysis of À D. Barbara Heliodora by Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem À D. Barbara Heliodora that begins with:

Bárbara bela, Do Norte estrela,
Que o meu destino Sabes guiar,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX XXaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101011100 111100101 0110110 110100100 110110010010 1010100110 1110111100 1100001100 1110011110 11001010 1100011000 100101110 110111010 1101001010 101010001110 101100110
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; de, os are repeated.

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