Eu Mesmo by Emílio de Meneses: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Eu Mesmo that begins with:

Eu mesmo estou a ignorar se posso
chamar-me ainda o Emílio de Meneses,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101001001110 101101100010 10001011110 100010001000 101010010110 11010001010 11001011110 1101101010100 1010100011100 111001000 10011011000110 1110101100 111111001111100 1110001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o is repeated.

    The author used the same word como at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vel is repeated).

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