This is an analysis of the poem A Invenção Do Diabo that begins with:
Deus, entregando ao Diabo a metade do mundo,
Deu-lhe a parte pior, como era de razão;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb XcXc XdXd Xbca XeXe XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX cXcd XXcX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000110010110 110111010010 110100011001100 11000101011011 100101101100100 110111110110100 11101010000010 11001111100110 11001101101100 10001001001101 10000101111010 1100101111100101 010111100010 111010101011 111111010001010 01110011101001110 110001011001110 10010111001011 1010001101 0101101011001 110111001000 11001110110100 10100111110100 0101110101100 01001001110100 101001011000100 111100101000 100110010001 101010110010 11000111000010 1010101010010 1001110110001110 1110110110110 10010111000011 11010101010100 11011100010 1110100101000 1100110100011000 1011101100111000 0110001011001100 10001111110 10001101011000 101100101000010 1100111001011 111010111110 100011010011000 110010111010 1110001101100 110010101010 01110001001100 10011110010100 10101000110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; o, da, e, de, um are repeated.
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