This is an analysis of the poem The Bull Moose that begins with:
Down from the purple mist of trees on the mountain,
lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb defff agghd iidj ceXf gXhj bXjj af X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,4,4,4,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101011010 10110011110 10011001 1011 00111101110 1100110101 1111101110010 110010110011 1010010011100101 001110 01010011101 110101011 0101011110 111100100101 011101001 0101001001010 01011011110 0111011011 10111111110 101110101101 1011001010101001 1010101 010101 10101101010101 011011101100 1110101 10101011 1111101110110010 0111001 1010011011001 1110010101111110 1111010111011 111100111110 010110000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Bull Moose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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