This is an analysis of the poem The Furrow that begins with:
An old horse to the furrow - an old man to the plough -
For the young horse and the young lad, they're needed yonder now -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aa bb cc aa dd eeXAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110010111001 10111011110101 0111110111101 1101010110101 0111011111111 1111010111001 1111110111111 1101101111101 0101010110001 11001010110111 0101110101101 111011111010101 1110010111001 10111011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; young, and, horse, him 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 Furrow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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