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The song’s brilliance lies in its mathematical "construction." It is composed of dodecasyllabic verses where every line ends in a proparoxytone (a word stressed on the third-to-last syllable), such as máquina , última , and sábado .

The song consists of three sections. In each, the verses are largely the same, but the final proparoxytone words are shuffled. ConstruГ§ГЈo

Beneath its poetic complexity, "Construção" is a scathing indictment of labor alienation under capitalism and authoritarianism. such as máquina

ConstruГ§ГЈo