This is an analysis of the poem Freedom's Plow that begins with:
When a man starts out with nothing,
When a man starts out with his hands...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgd hidddd abbdbjjchhcdd kibblkm hbnfddbhbhbHbh kbbbdmbmbmbmbbbbbbmnm bbXlbbbbbdbnbomgXbpi dOnlqlckdhkdECfkkacdiBXhkk daXgeheqHaCchCohbfidfcfidc hbkdndlhhlngdiX mcccfncngamOECfiBbmimfKdcKhdqbKXkhaCpqfkqdkdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,13,7,14,21,20,26,26,15,45,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10111001 1011 10110101 111001 10110001 011 00101 1001001 10111001 0111101 101101 1011001 1010001 01110100110 101000110100 0110101011100 01110101 01011100100010 101110101 001000101 10101111101 1001001 11101111 11101 111111 010010111 01101111101 1100101 100101110 010011010 11101010 11111011 00110100 0100101001 101111011 0101010 110101 110101 1010111 1011 1001010 100101 1001110 1011 1001101010 1011111 10 10001101 00111011 00101101001 100111010101 11011000111 1010110100 1010110100101 1101101100100 1000101011011 1110100100 110111010 010100100 11111 010101001 11111 10110 1101010 10111010 1111110100 1010110 11110100 1010101100 1011110 1010101010 10111011 10101010 1010110 101010100 10101011 101110111 101010101010 10110110 101110 101011111 1010100 101010100 10011111 10010011 0101100 101110 100111 01101111101011 11101010 0111010 0100100001 0111100 10010100 0111001011 1011010111 11001110 1111110110 0101101 11110111101 110001 0100101 0111001 10111 1011011 11110111001010 1011101100 1011 10011 1011 11010111001 11101010 1011 1100100111 01111010101 1111 010101101 1111111 110110 100111 110101010 01110100 1001101010 011101 11110111 111110111 1001 11110111 10101101100 101 110111 110101111 101101 1101011 111110111 1001011101010 1111011 11110101101 1101101 110101010 0100001 010101100 0101001001011 01011111111 1101110 010101 1101101 101101000010 100110010 1100100010 0101111101110 110111 110100101 101001 1101010111011 0100 1010010 110010 11110111 00101110 1001010 0010111 101010 01101001 1000010 00011100100 11101010 110001 0100101 01001 1011 1011 11110100 11110100 10010011 110100 0010011101001 111 001001101 1101001 111 10 101 0100 0101000111 111 01101 10110100110 1101 11110111 0110110 01010100 00110010111 0110110100101 11011010 1101001101 101011101 011101110101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 545
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 200
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; when, man, starts, to, seeks, dream, world, and, hands, in, that, labor, came, on, would, them, who, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, on, not, in, came, now, there, who are repeated.
The author used the same word america at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world, obstacles, help, dream, hands, handles, coaches, on, them, common are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases a, out connect the lines.
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- summary of Freedom's Plow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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