This is an analysis of the poem The Man With The Hoe (Written After Seeing Millet's World-Famous Painting) that begins with:
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXccXXdXbefagXcbXc XhaXaXgbXbf AbXgfXhXaXAdebaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,11,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010011 0101110101 0100010001 1101010001 1111010101 0111111101 1011010001 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 0001011111 0101010111 010111010110 0101000100 0001111101 1111010101 1101010011 1011110010 1101000111 1101111101 1101000101 1101110100 1001010101 1101010101 1011000101 01010100001 10110100101 1100001101 1011010001 10100110000 1010010001 0011010100 1101110011 0001011101 01010101110 1011010101 1001010100 1101010101 0100010101 11010100100 100110001 1101110011 1001010001 11001100110 1100010101 1000010101 0111100110 1011010101 1001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 534
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, and, this, more, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, to, more, how are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Man With The Hoe (Written After Seeing Millet's World-Famous Painting);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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