This is an analysis of the poem O Poema Do Frade that begins with:

Meu herói é um moço preguiçoso
Que viveu e bebia porventura ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXbaXXXX XXXXXXXX bXXcbXXX bXbXbXXX XXXXXXXX bXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bXXXbXXbXXXbXXXX XXXaXX XXXXXX XXXXbX XXXaXX XXXXbb XXXXXX bXbXbX XXXXXX bXXXdd XXXXXX XXXXXb aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXcX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXaX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 1101101000 10101101110010 110111110100 1000111000 1010110101100 1010111100 111011001110 10110101010 110111010 111001001000 10100010010 1111001100 100010010010 1101001100 111111101000 1111010111100 1101101000 11011011010 11110110000 1110010110 100100110000 11101101110 1011011111 1110111011011 111011100110 1110110001110 1110011001110 01011011 1001011000110 10011000110 11101111000 11110011010 111001100100 11001100100 111100111100 1111111100 1001110100 1100101000 1110101100 11010011010 111011100 101001100010 10110101 1010101100010 101001010 11101010 01101011100 1100100110 110001010000 01001001110 11010111100 101100110010 11001101000 100110110 1101101100 10111001010 101010011100 1001100110 11010110100 101001011 1111111000 101110010100 1001101000 10001011010 110010001000 101101100100 11100100110 11010101100 10101010 1011011011000 1111011000 011010111100 1000010010100 10110011100 111011001000 101100010000 101010010100 10001101110 1111010100 1001101110 1101010001010 11001100100 1011010100 1000101100100 11010010100 010011100 11101001010 10110110100 11001010100 011101100 11011010110 1100110110 101010100 1111111010 100101011000 11111011010 100010110100 111001010 101100100110 101101011010 10110110011000 100101001010 111001010 11011110100 11001100100 11000011110 1100111000 1101110100 1101101111 11010010100 1100011010 1011101101100 11001101100 11010010111 11111101000 10110110110 10100110110 1110101100 11101011000 111001101100 1110111010110 1110100100 10101110110 111100101110 11001110110 10101010110 11101101000 110101110 1110010111000 111001111100 1011111000 11101111010 111001001000 110011001010 110010011000 11101110110 1110100100 110111101 11010110110 110010110 11001000110 111010110100 1011001110 1101011010100 11100101110 100110101100 110110111100 01011011111 10100100101 10101110110 1010101000 1110100000110 10001101000 1111101110 1101011010 110110010110 0010111000 1001101100100 1000110101100 1101101000 11011000010 101001110 11001011100 11101001100 11110110110 10011001000 111101010 1111011100 101101011000 0111000010100 11000110010000 110110100 110101010000 111000101100 11011100 101101001000 01110101110 10101101110 11001000110 10101101000 1111100101100 100111000 011001100 100100100001 1101011001 1001100100 1110011000 100101101 110111000 11101100011100 101111101010 10111011011000 1100010111010 1101111100110 11100101110 11110100100 1011011000 1001110110 1101101100 100110110 111110100100 101011011000 11001001010 101101110 11011001100 10001111110 101001010 110011000 1100100111 11111101000 100101101000 11110100100 11001001100 1101011100 11101010 11111100100 11110000100 111011100 10100111100 1011001011010 1111010100 11001011110 101101110 1010011011 11011010110 1110010010000 1100101000 11011001000 111101101000 10110001100 11101100100 111110010 111110010 1010101100 11101101110 11010101100 10101010110 101011011100 11001100110 111100101100 1101011010 101110001100 10110100010 1100111101 1101010010 1111011100010 101001111100 1111000010 1101101101110 11010010100 110110010100 11101001100 10110110100 10011100111000 10110110100 10100110001 1101000110 1010010100 010001101100 1011101011110 110110100 1100111010100 10111001010 10110111110110 11100101110 101000101100 10100110110 10101010100 11010110010 1011110101010 10010110100 1000100100 1100111110010 1110110100 11011010100 101010010 11110010010 01100011010 1100011100 10101101100 1110001100100 101111001100 11100111000 0111100101000 11101011110 1100110111000 01011010100 11101010110 11110001110110 11001001011100 1111001111000 0101100010000 11001111100 10101101101 111010011000 1010111110 1011111010 101011011100 10010110100 11101001000 10101101 1010101000 10101001100 11011100 11101010100 1100101010 10100010110 1011001100 11110001100 11000101000 01001110100 101110111000 1100100110 10010111110 110101111000 100001010100 10101010100 1110011100 1110010100 1001100111100 111110011000100 11001111100 11001001100 110111111000 1111011010 101010011100 11011100010 10010010110 11001100110 1101011100 110000111100 100011110 10111101010 101110100110 110011011000 110101110110100 110011001100 110101101000 10110100100 100011001000 1011011010000 110110101 110100100 11001100010 101101100011 110110010 1001011010 1011101010 11010001100 11011001100 1010111100 110010100100 0100111100 1101101110 11100011100 11010001100 1001010010000 10101011010 01011001000 10110101110 111101101110 1101010000 1010100111000 1101011000 10011001110 1001111101 110110010101 1011010110 11001101111 111101100 10100010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 57
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 372
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, ou, que, nas, e, um, de, m, as, como, se are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, como, e, mesclou, um, onde are repeated.

    The author used the same words e, sentir at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bios, ncia, lo, a are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase adeus connects the lines.

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  • summary of O Poema Do Frade;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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