This is an analysis of the poem Trovas that begins with:

Ouve: se amor é pecado,
Eu, pecador, me confesso...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXb XXXX Xaab XXXX XXXc aXXa dXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XcXX XXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 11001100 0101010100 11101000 1111010100 0100100 1001110 1101111000 110111100 10101100 1110100 011111110 111011010 1101101 11100111 01110100 11001000 01011010 11110010 01001010 1011101 10110100 10110000 11111100 10111111 1101000 101000110 110100101 11010010 101010100 1110101110 110110010 1111101 111110110 101010100 111111110 11011100 11100110 10101110 1110111000 10010100 110101100 1011100100 010010100 1011010 110011100 11001110 10101100 10011010 101100011 1100101 010111110 1100110 1110111100 10110110 101101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).

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  • summary of Trovas;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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