This is an analysis of the poem The White Bull that begins with:
Ev'ry dusk eye in Madrid,
Flash'd blue 'neath its lid;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXbcccccbbddeffagag hhbbbbaaddcciibbcXddbbjbbjiX hhaaddaaXibggkkkklliiiii iiaajjaadidiaaddcckkaajddjddbbkkkkXhii ddaababajajaaacmmXicX cceeXccagaaiaaijjXakabibX nncgiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,28,24,38,21,25,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 11101 101101011 11101 101001101 001001 101 1111001 001001 11011011 101001011 11001 010001010 0111110 01001011 101001001 011011 111001011 101011101 11011011 1011010110 11001 0010110010 11001001 11111011 001111 11111001 1110001111 111011011 1100101001 111010111 10100110111 010010101 11011101 0110110101 1111 111111001001 111010001 1111 110010101 110110100 1101 0110100101 11101 101111100 1001011101 1111 10111101111 01011 11101111001 00101001101 1001 1111101111 11110111 1010111111 10101001111 1101 110010111 1010100101 11011001000 1101 00100101101 110111110 10011001010 101011101 0011100111 11001 11111 0010010111 00101101111 1011110111 0100100101 11010100101 1101 101100111 10011 00101 11011011101 101011101011 101111 11001 11101111111 1101001001 101011 11101 101101 11111 010011101 0101 0110101101 1011110111 111101 00111101001 11101 11011001001 0101111001 0101 100100101 11101 10101 01101001111 1110010111 100101100101 101100101 1101 00110110101 011101111 1111 101110111 001100 11011001011 1011 0010110111 101111001 101001 101101 10101001101 001001 1101100101 01001 11011 10101110101 0010110101 001001111101 0011110101 111 10101 001 0001001 011 1001011100 11111 01011001 00111 1001111 11001001 1011 11011 0100101100 111 10100100101 11001011 010 111101101 11111 101110111 01011 1111 1010100111 11011 10111 10010100 010101 01110101 110101 010010101 110101 01010101 110111 100010110010 010010 110001 10001010110 10111011011 1110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 777
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 165
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, of, i, her, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words bull, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The White Bull;
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