This is an analysis of Ó Áridas Messalinas by Cesário Verde.

Ó áridas Messalinas
nãe [sic] entreis no santuário,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101000 111101100 1000110 1110010 1010110 01010100 101010100 11100110 010101 1000100 10110011 11000100 101101100 11110100 1111111110 11111100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

o, sois