This is an analysis of the poem The Bulls that begins with:
Six bulls I saw as black as jet,
With crimsoned horns and amber eyes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc Xbabb cdcdd dedee fgfgXXbdbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 010011101 11110101 11010101 01011101 000101010 010101001 01010101 11110101 11010101 01110100 01011111 11010101 01010011 11001101 10011101 10010101 11000101 01110001 01000101 01011101 11000101 01010011 01011111 01011100 11010101 11110101 01001101 01011111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of The Bulls;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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