This is an analysis of the poem O Sorriso Do Retrato that begins with:
Pintava um grande artista uma figura
de formosa mulher, mas na boca existia...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX XXaX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110010010 0010101110100 110101111100 110001101100 11000100100 1101010100100 10010100100 0101101110 111111110000 1110110110 010001001100 101110011001011 1010100110000 10110100000 100100111100 110011101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; de, o are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sorriso at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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