This is an analysis of the poem The Ploughman that begins with:
Friend, mark these muscles; mine's a frame
Born, grown, and fitted for the toil.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc eaae efge ahha iXji khhk bgfb ljjl mXhm Xhhi nnnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 11010001 01001011 11110111 01110111 111111001 10010111 11111101 11111111 11001111 01010001 01011101 01110100 11010101 11000111 11011101 11010111 10010111 11000101 11111111 111101010 11010101 11010101 01010111 01010111 11010110 01010101 11110111 11110101 01010100 01010101 11011111 01011101 01000111 11000101 11111101 01111001 01010101 11111101 10110101 11111111 11110111 01110101 011100101 11110111 01110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Ploughman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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