This is an analysis of the poem Monólogo De Uma Sombra that begins with:

«Sou uma Sombra! Venho de outras eras,
Do cosmopolitismo das moneras... ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XbXXXX XXXXXX XXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX cXbXaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXd XXXeeX bXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXd XXXXXX bXcXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXcXX XXXXbX XXXXXc XXXXXb XXXXXb XXXXXX XXaXXX aaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001010 11000001100 10010010 1001100100 11000110100 110010110 01011011000 110100101010 01011000100 1011100100 01110100 1010011100 100100110010 11011001100 10100001000 1101101001 110000001100 10101000110 110010101010 110000001000 1101100100 101100100100 0100001000 0101101000 111000101000 101101000010 01001101000 10110011010110 111000100110110 11100110110 11110111010 100000111100 1101010100 11010000101 10101010010 11100010101100 0110011010 1001100110 110001001010 1010101000100 1100101100 111101100100 11001001010 0101000110 110010100010 110010011010 11010100100 011011011100 110111010100 10100100110 0101110100 1011110010100 11010011100 101110100 1010001100 111010110 1010000011100 1011000100 110001000 110010100100 1101010010 1110001000 1000100100 1010010100 100010011 1000010110 1111110010 11001011110 1000010100 1101000010 101110100 11000001000 0100011000 100101101000 10100101111 10100010010 101100111010 1100100011 1010101000 0100001000 10101101100 11110110100 10110100111100 1101010011 111010101110 1001101010 1001101010 11010010011 11101010011 0100100010 100100110010 1110001000100 100110011010 1011110100 11000010000 010100001100 1010010110 11010100 10011011010 111101001 110011100 1101000011 1100110010 1001000110 1001110100 1011000100 100110011000 0010100110 10110110100 1010100100 11100100100 101101111100 1010100110 1110000101000 110101001010 10100100110 110001000110 0101000011 11001101110 1011110101 11010000100 101001100100 100101000100 100111001000 1010000100 01010001100 111000110100 010100011 101100010 10011000101 1100000100 1111000110 110001100 1110011000 0101011011000 1100001000100 100110101100 1110011100 11111001100 1010011011100 1000010010 111100110 10100001000 1101001100 11001001010010 01011011011100 1011010000100 1011000101 10110100110 0100010100100 1001100000101 10011010101 10110100100 110111000100 0100101010 010001000110 1010100110100 10101011000 11101100101 111010001100 1011001011100 10100010100 1001101100 11001101100 110010101010100 1101001100 1110010101010 11010100010 110010110010100 11110110100 110110001000 10010100100 100001010010 0100100001100 10010010011000 110011100100 1000101110 1001011000100 1001101100100 110001010010 111000110010 1000100100 101011100010 111010010 10010110100 11001100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, o, as, da are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, e, a, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines neas, a, ias, veis, se, ssimas, cio, rias, ncia, tica, bulos are repeated).

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