This is an analysis of the poem Namoro A Cavalo that begins with:

Eu moro em Catumbi. Mas a desgraça
Que rege minha vida malfadada...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaa bXXa XXXb cbcX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111001010 1110101000 1111110110 0101001000 1001111101 11000111000 110101101000 1010001100 10111000111111 111010010100 11100100010 10100101010 10101001010 110100010000 11101011000010 101001011010 1010100110 110011100110 11110101010 10101010010 111000111010 1100100010010 101001011010 11010101000 11111010100 11001101010 1110100101000 10111100100 11001000100 10101001000 1001110111110 110101110100 111011001000 1101100110 101010011000 11000101011 100100010100 1011110101 111010110 11010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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  • summary of Namoro A Cavalo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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