Poem Analysis of Tuas Tranças by Emílio de Meneses for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Tuas Tranças that begins with:

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Tudo o que eu vejo, me rodeia e fala,...

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 1011110110110 11100110010 1110110100 10101011010 11010111110 101011100110 11100100010 10010011010 10100101100 11101100110 101001000110 101101101010 11011100100 1101011011 1101001010100 1011110010 11101100010 110101110010 11010101100 101000110000111 1110010100010 1010011110110 111100110010 110110101100 110110101011 10110111110 1011011110010 10100111010
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, que are repeated.
The author used the same word ai at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word as at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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