This is an analysis of the poem Flor Da Mocidade that begins with:

Eu conheço a mais bela flor;
És tu, rosa da mocidade,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXAaXAX XXXXXXXX BXbBbXBX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101 11101100 10010010110 11001101 11100101 11011100 11001101 11101100 11101100 101011010 110010001 11101100 100101100 11001001 11101100 101011010 1111011011 11110111100 101101101 1111011011 100101100 1011110100 1111011011 11110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; o, que, colhe, se, antes are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines o is repeated).

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