This is an analysis of the poem Pálida Imagem that begins with:
No delírio da ardente mocidade
Por tua imagem pálida vivi!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110100 111001010 01110110110 100011 110001101000 111111010 1010010100 101010 11111101010100 110101010 101101001 110010 101100110100 1011110110 0110010100 010010 11111011010 1101110111000 111001011011 111100 1101011011 11101100110 1011100101 11010 10100100111000 1101001110 1010110100 11101 1101011010100 111001100 101100110 11001010 1111110100 1101001010 101110110110 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; de, e, por are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, e are repeated.
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- summary of Pálida Imagem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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