This is an analysis of the poem À Minha Mãe that begins with:
Como as flores de uma árvore silvestre
Se esfolham sobre a leiva que deu vida...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010 1110010101110 0110110 1011111 101101010 110100 110110110 11110101011 11100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of À Minha Mãe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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