This is an analysis of the poem À T... that begins with:

Amoroso palor meu rosto inunda,
Mórbida languidez me banha os olhos, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXXbXXXXXbXXXaXXaXXXXXaXaXbXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010110100 10100110110 10110110100 10001011010 10101111010 1001010100 1111010010 010010001010 110001010010 100001111110 1101011000 11000110110 10011100100 110100 101110011 101111010100 111101100 111011111100 100110010000 1000100 100010111 111001101110 101101101100 1110011010 10010101010 110101011010 11001101100 11001101100 101001110011 111101000100 11101011110 0111111100 110111001010 11111001 110110110110 1110100111 10010111100 101101100 1011010110 1111101110100 111011001100 1011100100 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1535
  • Average number of words per stanza: 295
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • 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; e, de, tua are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sinto, o, que are repeated.

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  • summary of À T...;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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