Desiludida by Vicente de Carvalho: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Desiludida that begins with:

Sou como a corça ferida
Que vai, sedenta e arquejante,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXAX XXXX XXXX XXAX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010100 111001100 100110010 1101110 11111110 11010001100 10111110 11011110 11000100 11010000 1111111100 1001101000 110010100 111001100 100110010 1101110 11001100 1111100 11110001110 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, me, n, o are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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