Analysis of Sonnet I.
Fernando Pessoa 1888 (Lisbon District) – 1935 (Lisbon)
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111111 11101111 1010101111 10111110001 1011110101 11101010101 101111 01110011101 00111111011 11011111110 10101011101 1111011011010 111011001111 01111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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