This is an analysis of the poem A Órfa Na Costura that begins with:
Minha mãe era bonita,
Era toda a minha dita,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A X B X X X X X X X X X X X c X X X A X B X X b A A X X X X X X X X X X X X X a X X A A c A X X X X X X X X a a c X X X A A X A X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010 101001010 10101110 110010010 111010010 10100100 110010 110100 11011110 101011010 1110100 10101100 110101 010101000 101010011 11100100 1011000 101010 10110010 101001010 10101110 1101010 10110110 101110 101101010 11101010 01010101 101110100 1100100 101011011 11101000 10110100 100011 1111010 1001110 100011 11101000 1000101000 10111 10010110 1100100 1001010 101101010 11101010 010101011 10110010 101001010 10101101 11011100 101001110 11011100 11011100 11011100 1101110 101111010 1111010 110101 10111110 10111110 1011101 101101010 11101010 01010101 10110010 101001010 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 66
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 24
- Average number of words per stanza: 5
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; era, tudo, que, eu, este, minha, m, diz, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words era, minha are repeated.
The author used the same words era, minha at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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