This is an analysis of the poem Black Bandillera that begins with:

The flower of a fighting toro
is mourning, affixed since birth....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdefgffbhhiXbbjekdklmnhXXXogjecjXXhiobjXbmbkljbean XbbdXXbbeo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010001010 0100111 01001010 0001011001 001110 01101 01001100001 101011010 11111 111100 1111000 00101100 1001101 11110 010101 111100100 01011101 1001001 010111 1010101 01000100 010100001 010000100 1010101 1100010 101101 101001 11111 11101000 101011 0011011101 110011 11010001 0100111 10110 0100100001 11000 11000 1101 0001011 1011101 001000101 101001 111010100 101001 01100010 0100101 1111001 1011101 101001 10100110 11111 00110 110100010 001110 1011001 1110101 010001 1011000 011000 101 1111 10010 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 883
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; goes, s, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, it, black, let are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines banderillas is repeated).

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

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