This is an analysis of the poem Ser Moça E Bela Ser that begins with:
Ser moça e bela ser, por que é que lhe não basta?
Porque tudo o que tem de fresco e virgem gasta...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X a X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111110 11011101011010 11011010101000 11001101001110 0101 101000 110101100100101100 110010010111100 110011101000 101000101100100 111110110010 110101011010100 111110111111 1001011001011010 101100111010011100 101101110111000 1101101101000 111000101100100 10111100101100 101001101110 1100110101010 101110101110 101011111100 1101010111011000 10001100100
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 41
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, que, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word contra is repeated.
The author used the same word contra 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 a is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word a at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase a connects the lines.
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- summary of Ser Moça E Bela Ser;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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