This is an analysis of Decadência by Augosto dos Anjos.

Iguais às linhas perpendiculares
Caíram, como cruéis e hórridas hastas,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 10110100000 1010111010 1111010 1101101000 010110100 1100010100 10001111000 100011101000 1011011001100 11001001000 1011000100 1111110100 11101001101 10101001100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 17