“…The song "Pelas Tabelas" (Out of my mind), by Chico Buarque, was written and published in 1984, as part of the album Chico Buarque alongside political and romantic songs such as "Vai Passar", "Mil Perdões", "Brejo da Cruz", "Como se fosse a Primavera" (Pablo Milanés and Nicolás Guillén), "Tantas Palavras", among others. Its structure is "cyclical" (Santos, 2014), and the lines are intertwined, without amendments or slots, as a seamless robe. The structure of the rhyme suggests an organization of verses in quartets that unfold and repeat themselves, that is, a complete repetition, culminating in one last stanza that makes a variation.…”